Man sues hospital for medical negligence
A man is launching a medical negligence claim against the hospital trust he visited, after it was involved in an antibiotic mix-up.
His injury lawyers said that the man was left paralysed after being given the incorrect antibiotics.
The man, who is diabetic, suffered a bout of pneumonia during a holiday in Lanzarote with his wife two years ago.
The couple returned home and the man was admitted to the University Hospital of North Durham.
Hospital staff discharged the man to his home in County Durham two days after his admission and given medication for another week.
However, within hours of going home “terrific pain” began and he could not get out of bed.
His family swiftly took the 58-year-old man to hospital before being transferred to the intensive care unit.
It was diagnosed that he was suffering from kidney failure and he was once again moved, this time to the Freeman Hospital, in Newcastle.
He said he was paralysed and needed everything done for him. "I could only breathe, speak and blink. I thought I was going to die," he said.
His injury lawyers said he was making a compensation claim against the NHS Foundation Trust.
Updated on 04/03/2010