My experience at Great Ormond Street hospital restored my faith in the health service, says features writer Huma Qureshi
Fifteen years ago, my family’s life changed for ever when my father suffered a number of strokes. They left him half-paralysed, locked-in and unable to speak. He died in an overheated ward on a cold spring day. That morning, his skin was as pale as paper. His breath cracked. A nurse came in with clipboards, I asked her what was wrong with his breathing. “That’s just the sound they make when they die,” she said, not looking at me. My father went still. The nurse left.
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