Mum's NHL Treatment Not Necessarily Necessary?
Helen Richards was forty-six years old when she died last July at the University of Wales Hospital. She had been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma 15 years earlier and was in the hospital for a blood stem cell transplant. She died after complications arose from the surgery. However, the postmortem found no evidence of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in her body.
Her daughter, Sarah Richards said "I find the whole thing very disturbing. If I ever got ill I'd be scared to death. How can you be sure if the doctors are telling you the truth?"
Byron Barnett, Mrs. Richard's brother, believes the doctors had misdiagnosed her.
He told the Guardian: “She had an operation that she didn’t need. No one had scanned her since December 2006.
“She didn’t go for treatment – she went to be executed by lethal injection.”
An inquest concluded that she died of an infection which led to multiple organ failure including brain swelling and a stroke. Mr. Barnett intends to brings his complaints to the General Medical Council as well as the Cardiff and Vale NHS (National Health Service) Trust.
