Their deaths were among seven fatalities that were part of a nationwide alert during the listeria outbreak, which affected nine people in all in other hospitals, including in Liverpool, Leicester and Derby.
Two women died after eating chicken mayo sandwiches contaminated with listeria, which were fed to them in hospital, an inquest has concluded. Retired Jamaican nurse Beverley Sowah, 57, and mother-of-five Enid Heap, 84, were given the sandwiches on successive days while patients at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 2019. Both women, who had underlying health problems, died within days, the joint-inquest into their deaths heard at Manchester Coroner's Court.
Following a five-day inquest a jury concluded the listeria bacteria entered the food chain at cooked meat processing firm North Country Quality Foods in Salford, Greater Manchester. They supplied the contaminated chicken to sandwich-making firm the Good Food Chain, based in Stone, Staffordshire, which used it to produce chicken mayo sandwiches. These were then supplied to Sodexo, who were contracted to supply the NHS trust running the MRI, and the sandwiches were fed to Mrs Sowah and Mrs Heap.
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