Hospital to Pay Overdose Death Compensation

Summary


The family of a cancer patient killed by a drug overdose at a Birmingham hospital are due to receive a five-figure payout for his unnecessary death.

Father-of-three Paul Richards, aged 35, from Sutton Coldfield, was given five times the normal dose of fungal infection drug amphotericin at Heartlands Hospital sending his body into shock and killing him within hours in July 2007.

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Hospital to Pay Overdose Death Compensation

Mr Richards, a former IT consultant, was given the drug to combat the side effects of the chemotherapy treatment he was receiving at...

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