Thursday May 12, 2011 at 5:39pm
Doctors at Stockpot NHS Trust are again under fire after the hospital treated a school boy of 11 next to a dead body.
Liam Clark’s mother Deborah Bradshaw, 32, was waiting for doctors to treat her son Liam for a gashed head not realising a corpse was lying under a green sheet on the next bed.
Both Liam and his mother only became aware when a doctor walked into the room and noticed the body and said to his colleague: “You do realise what that is, don’t you?”
Both looked anxiously at Mrs Bradshaw before the body was quickly removed.
As the body was taken away, Mrs Bardashaw spotted a sink in the room had fresh blood on it.
It is not clear what the cause of death was.
The Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester is investigating the incident.
Dr. Chris Burke, Chief Executive of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We are concerned to hear of the issues raised by Mrs Bradshaw.
“We are reviewing the circumstances that led to this happening to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.”
Last year, doctors’ at the Stepping Hill hospital in Stockport blundered.
Doctors failed to notice swine flu in Lana Ameen, 3, from Birmingham. She was taken to the hospital on Christmas Day 2010 with a temperature but was sent home, after being told by a registrar that it was a minor infection only to be re-admitted later when she tragically died two days later.
Harvey Flanagan, 5, was twice taken to the Stepping Hill hospital and told by doctors that he had indigestion and twice sent home by doctors just before Christmas last year. He was later diagnosed by the staff at Tameside Hospital as suffering from swine flu.
The Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Accident and emergency department was criticised in March this year after an independent enquiry conducted by Dr Rosemary Morton revealed that the hospital had a shortage of specialist children’s nurses and a lack of consultant care at the evenings and weekends.