Blunder only adds to family anguish

You really couldn’t make it up. The letter health chiefs sent to Pauline Hunt’s husband Gordon was crass in the extreme.

Mr Hunt had submitted a complaint to the transplant service after his wife was given terminal cancer which was contracted from an infected transplanted kidney.

The response to the complaint was to first pass on condolences for her death when, as The Sunday Post readers will know, she is still clearly alive.

It beggars belief that the organisation could get things so wrong, adding yet more anguish to this awful case.

Surely, those at the top should have known every detail of Pauline’s situation given what she has gone through.

It makes you feel that previous statements were nothing more than empty words.