The body of a young woman who died of a blood clot was presented for viewing in a hospital “cleaning cupboard”, her family said, after NHS staff missed “red flag” symptoms.
Dena Collins collapsed in the home she shared with her parents in south east London on the morning of 12 January 2023, a day after attending Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich with symptoms including shortness of breath, a fever, and calf pain which was so severe she was using a crutch.Her father, Dean, tried to resuscitate her, but she was pronounced dead at the hospital’s Emergency Department just over two hours later after suffering a pulmonary embolism.
Dena was booked in for a scan the following day, and sent home at 6pm without blood-thinning medication often given as a precaution to patients with possible blood clots.That evening, feeling the effects of painkillers issued by the hospital, Dena told her family she was feeling better and went to bed.Her mother Irene, buoyed by that assurance, went to work as usual the following day, leaving Dean to take Dena for her scan.But just after 9am, Dean heard a loud bang upstairs.
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