YOUR SHOUT

Thank you for all of your heartbreaking messages following my account of my father’s drug-induced death on a mental health ward. Here are just a few:

Fiona, I am 100% with you. They did the same thing to my lovely father-in-law – just a different hospital.

@Athertontv, via Twitter

Fiona, like your father, mine was put to sleep with a morphine pump and morphine injections every four hours. He went into hospital with a chest infection and died 12 days later. In that time he was given nothing to eat or drink. Myself, sister and niece sued the hospital, and they admitted medical negligence. You go to hospital to be looked after. I would not let the doctors in Surrey who looked after my dad look after my dog.

Barbara Searle, via email

Fiona, Mum went into hospital in 2013 with a urine infection. She was put on the Liverpool Pathway without family consent – kept without food and water for 31 days. She was given anti-psychotics every day. She was 90 and blind, but was never sick once in her life. Her medical records read like a murder story. The guilt we feel every day is unbearable.

Christine, via email

Fiona, I saw my brother in the Hull Royal Infirmary at evening visiting time. He was due to be discharged the following morning. Around midnight our niece received a call saying he had died, but not to rush to the hospital to give them an hour to make him presentable.

The death certificate stated he’d died from multiple organ failure. I don’t intend to raise any issues, I’m in my late 80s, not in the best of health, but over the years, I’ve often wondered… what’s been going on in hospitals?