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Second hospital death after medication mix-up

Published November 18, 2008, 12:08 pm, Otago Daily Times

A second hospital death due to a drugs mix-up has been highlighted by a coroner. Hastings coroner Chris Devonport found that a 76-year-old man at Hawke's Bay Hospital died from a large brain haemorrhage after being wrongly given a second dose of blood-thinning medication.

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