The Davie family from St John's Seven Kings have had their fight to find out the truth behind death of wife, mother and local GP, Sugi Davie, featured in the local press this week.
Sugi died on 22nd December 2007 in the early morning, having been discharged the night before from a transfusion. When the family asked for the records, within four weeks, first the hospital said they lost the records of 21st Dec. from the Day Unit and later that they have lost the entire file!!
The family write:
"As you know, my mother passed away just over 2 years ago very unexpectedly, and my family and I have been trying to understand the true circumstances of her death. The hospital had lost ALL her medical records, within 4 weeks after her death – which has hindered greatly our ability to find out the truth and we want to ensure the distress we’ve been through does not happen to anyone else.
We have attempted to contact numerous organisations to get support (NHS Trust, Department of Health, Healthcare commission, Local MP, Data Protection etc) – but none of them can offer help, as they don't know what to do or recommend when the individual concerned has died. We decided to go to press for the main reason to highlight a huge flaw in the NHS system and to ensure the NHS does not continue to purposely ‘lose’ medical records to cover the truth, especially when the individual dies following treatment."
The links to the articles are here, both include the opportunity to comment on the story and the family's situation:
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/8169643.REDBRIDGE__Son_continues_fight_for_truth_over_mother_s_death/
and
http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/content/redbridge/recorder/news/story.aspx?brand=RECOnline&category=newsIlford&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsilford&itemid=WeED20%20May%202010%2015%3A40%3A02%3A930
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