93 Year Old Widow, Suffering From Dementia Dies After the Ambulance Dropped Her at a Wrong Address
Mrs. Purnell, who was ailing with chronic lymphatic leukemia and dementia, was a regular with a day unit at Barry Hospital in South Wales//, especially run for elderly and mentally decrepit clients. An ambulance team was in charge of picking her up at the close of the day and drop her at the residence. On August 20th 2003, the ambulance, instead of taking her home in Penarth, dropped...Embittered Widow to Sue Hospital
Admitting her ‘ bitter’ feelings, a grieving widow has decided to take the hospital from which her late husband caught a fatal infection, to court. // Great-grandmother Mavis Burton-Pye, 67, said she would speak to a lawyer about the circumstances that led to the death of her husband Leslie, 74, at the James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk. Apparently, Mr Bur...Ostracized HIV-affected Widow Turns to Begging
An HIV positive widow has been reduced to begging for survival in Orissa after villagers ostracized her and her son out of fear that the disease can be passed on by social contact. And after her own parents also refused to provide support to her, Sukanti (name changed), only 30 years of age, and her younger son Dipun, 4, now beg for food in Mehendipur village in Cuttack district, 5...