Shabiha Azam's father Mohammed was dying of Covid when staff at Pinderfields Hospital in West Yorkshire set up a video call with the wrong family to say goodbye
Shabiha Azam's father Mohammed was dying of Covid when staff at Pinderfields Hospital in West Yorkshire set up a video call with the wrong family to say goodbyeA woman who believes errors in the care her father received as he died of Covid in hospital were in part due to racial stereotyping is working with the NHS to help prevent
When Mr Azam was admitted with Covid in January 2021, it took four days for his family to be informed of his whereabouts despite repeated efforts to locate him, including calling the hospital where he was being treated. By the time she was able to track him down, Mr Azam was in a respiratory ward on oxygen. His room had a broken window, making him extremely cold, to the point that his fingers turned blue.
Shabiha said she never received a full and formal explanation about the DNACPR order. She said at the time a junior registrar did tell her that as her father was Asian staff thought “because of his diet he probably isn’t physiologically fit to be put on to ventilation”.
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