UK: Why did dad have to die? - (thisisdorset.net)

March 18, 2008 – 5:48 pm

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The family of a Bournemouth man who went into hospital after suffering a mini-stroke is demanding answers after he contracted the norovirus, then died.
Douglas Webber’s distraught family says it took repeated questions before the hospital would admit he could have had the vomiting virus, which is transmitted through food and water, infected people and touched surfaces.
Mr Webber’s family got the words “suspected Norwalk virus” listed as one of the causes on his death certificate, after he passed away at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital on March 9, aged 81.
Daughter Teresa Webber and her sister Gina Willow believe their father, who lived in Queen’s Park, caught the bug after the hospital permitted another patient to be transferred on to the same ward, while suffering the virus.
Shortly afterwards Mr Webber,who was active in retirement, started to complain of feeling unwell.
His health went rapidly downhill despite him being moved to an isolation bay, where […]


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