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By
Daily Mail Reporter
A former NHS director died after waiting for nine months for an operation - at her own hospital.
Margaret
Hutchon, a former mayor, had been waiting since last June for a
follow-up stomach operation at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex.
But
her appointments to go under the knife were cancelled four times and
she barely regained consciousness after finally having surgery.
Her
devastated husband, Jim, is now demanding answers from Mid Essex
Hospital Services NHS Trust - the organisation where his wife had served
as a non-executive member of the board of directors.
He said: 'I don't really know why she died. I did not get a reason
from the hospital. We all want to know for closure. She got weaker and
weaker as she waited and operations were put off.'
Mr
Hutchon, of Great Baddow, Essex, said his wife, 72, had initially
undergone major stomach surgery last June but the follow up procedures
were repeatedly abandoned.
The former mayor remained at the
hospital for months but her family feared she was becoming
institutionalised and decided to bring her home until an operation was a
certainty.
Margaret Hutchon waited nine months for an operation at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford where she was a non-executive director
Mr
Hutchon, 71, said: 'The case has been referred to the coroner because
of the long time it has taken. In some ways, I would like the coroner to
order a post mortem.'
The pensioner said his wife had been left very weak before her operation because she had been unable to take in nutrients.
'From
July to October there was talk of another operation and then between
November and December there were three or four postponements and she was
becoming so institutionalised we decided to get her home until an
operation was certain.
'It was a blessing because although neither of is could have guessed it - it gave us a last month together.
'Nevertheless,
she was unable to take proper nourishment and went into the operation
on the better side of a low state - she was very weak.'
Mrs
Hutchon was well known and respected after serving in local government
for the past 30 years and she became mayor of Chelmsford in 2006.
Mike
Mackrory, a fellow Liberal Democrat councillor, said: 'We were all
stunned to hear she had died after the operation. There were constant
delays she had to endure before surgery.'
'We were given the very
sad news and as word spread it threw a pall over the civic dinner.
Margaret was much loved and respected in this town.'
A spokesman for Broomfield Hospital said it could not comment on individual cases.
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1 comment:
"He said: 'I don't really know why she died."
..she swallowed a horse?
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