Uncaring doctors in a British government hospital told woman she was suffering from a 'bad migraine'... two days later she died of a brain virus




An extremely distressed patient was simply ignored




When Jane Harrop [above] was admitted to hospital with severe pains in her head and neck, staff told her she was merely suffering a migraine. Two days later she was died as a result of a rare brain virus.

The 30-year-old's devastated family are now demanding answers after she was allegedly 'given drugs to shut her up and left in a corner to die'. Her husband Dean, 29, said doctors repeatedly failed to spot the virus that was killing her and did not transfer her to a specialist brain ward at a nearby hospital because there were no beds available. Instead, she was forced to stay on a general ward while nurses gave her morphine and put bars around her bed to stop her climbing out.

Mrs Harrop, who was a carer for multiple sclerosis sufferers, had been complaining of crippling headaches that made her feel ‘drunk’ for several days before being admitted to the Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham in February. Doctors scanned her head, but failed to diagnose the fatal virus. Medics booked her in for an MRI scan a week later and sent her home after deciding there was 'nothing unusual' about her case.

But during the next week, her condition deteriorated so badly that she could not walk and was admitted to a ward. Hospital records show that hours before her death she was screaming out in pain, but ward sisters did not call a doctor. Nurses’ notes for the day, February 19, read: ‘Patient just slid on to the floor… she said she was in pain. 'Gave her 10g morphine, put the cot sides up to stop her getting out again and advised patient to calm down.


'Went to do observation on rest of patients. When I got back she was unresponsive.' The next time nurses checked on Mrs Harrop, she was brain-dead.

The post mortem revealed she had been suffering from meningo-myeloencephalitis, a rare viral infection which causes the brain to swell and affects only a handful of people in Britain.

But Mr Harrop believes there is a chance his wife would have survived if she had been transferred to the specialist brain ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in nearby Edgbaston. He claims that a shortage of beds there meant she was left on a general ward with 35 other patients and just two nurses.

The builder from Selly Oak, Birmingham, said: 'Nurses said she was suffering from bad migraines, and gave her morphine to keep her quiet. 'The day before she died, Jane was rolling about on the floor screaming out in pain. She is not the kind of woman who would do that over a headache. 'But the hospital just wanted to keep her quiet. They gave her drugs to shut her up and left her in a corner to die.'

He said that five hours before his wife's death, she had been crying out in pain, but nurses still insisted that it was a migraine.

'I don't understand how this has happened. My wife was such a lovely, bright person, full of life and energy. Her death has left us all completely devastated,' he added. 'We need answers as to what happened.'

Mrs Harrop’s father, Reginald Cook, 55, said: 'We want to know whether the lack of beds played a part in Jane's death and we want to know why her condition wasn't spotted sooner. 'You don't want to hear there is no bed available when you need it the most.'

The hospital has begun an investigation into Mrs Harrop's death. Lisa Dunn, director of Good Hope hospital, said: 'Following the sad death of Mrs Harrop, a full investigation was initiated and, once complete, will be shared in full with the family and the coroner.' A spokesman for Queen Elizabeth hospital declined to comment.

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1 comment:

  1. Can't wait until our healthcare system is just like Britains'....

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