LEFT TO DIE IN AGONY

DEMENTIA sufferer Lily Campbell, 89, was left to die vomiting and in severe pain because two care home workers failed to carry out checks during the night.

When they found her body they changed her bedding, washed her and falsified medical records so it looked as though she had been visited.

Only then did Pratima Munjal, 53, and Abdul Khan, 22, call emergency services.

Munjal was jailed for ten months and Khan for six months in 2015 for their attempts to mislead bosses and the emergency services at Laburnum Court Care Home in Salford. The home is still open even though it has been failing for at least two years.

A court heard Mrs Campbell suffered an intestinal blockage during the night. The lack of checks meant she would have been in severe pain before she died on October 1, 2014.

Munjal had already handed in her notice as she was due to face separate disciplinary pro- ceedings for incorrectly recording medical records.

When she and Khan were jailed Mrs Campbell’s daughter Linda said: ‘My mum was an inspirational, strong woman. For her to have died in agony in her care home bed with no one checking on her is terrible.’

Laburnum Court was rated as ‘requires improvement’ in its most recent report, published last month. Inspectors said ‘people had been placed at risk of harm’.

A spokesman for Four Seasons Health Care, which runs the home, said: ‘We deeply regret the distress caused to Mrs Campbell and to her family. What the two care workers did was a criminal act. The overwhelming majority of nursing and care staff do a difficult job extraordinarily well.’