Police probe double fatal cancer drug overdose at Heartlands hospital
“People think you are OK, but I am just putting a brave face on it. I have days when I break down and think I can’t go on. I had a supportive husband helping me bring up the kids for 20 years. Now I am bringing them up on my own and he’s not here to see those special moments.
“What hurts the most is that his death could so easily have been avoided.”
Lisa has set up a petition to force Prime Minister Gordon Brown to make an urgent review of prescribing high risk drugs Across The NHS.
Confusion over drug Amphotericin was created because the original “conventional” form, branded as Fungizone, has a dose of about 1mg per kg of a patient’s weight, but modern forms, branded as Ambizone and Abelcet, have dosages of 3mg and 5mg per kg.
Lisa Dunn, director of Heartlands Hospital, said: “This drug has been removed from wards.
“We have not had any contact from the police about any action on these deaths.”
