A 'devoted' family man caught Covid-19 in hospital and died, weeks after being admitted with severe back pain. A consultant from Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport told an inquest that the virus "most likely" came from a staff member who did not know they had it South Manchester Coroner's Court heard that Malcolm Garrett, of Marple Bridge, had received a lung transplant eight years earlier and as a result was immunosuppressed.
Following the 61-year-old's death, a senior coroner has vowed to write a prevention of future deaths report to the Health Secretary, to try and "avoid and minimise the risk of immunosuppressed transplant patients in acute settings".
Mr Garrett's daughter Laura told the inquest that since his transplant, he had not been as active or mobile as before but that he had "gained a new perspective of what was manageable with his level of ability". READ MORE : Widower's heartache after wife's coffin 'gets jammed head-first in grave' during funeral On July 31 2021, Mr Garrett started to complain of a bad back and when things got worse on Monday (August 2) his wife Yvonne rang his GP.
After being told that there would be a two or three hour wait for a telephone consultation, Mr Garrett asked his wife to ring him an ambulance. “If Malcolm could keep out of hospital, he wouldn’t go in so for him to volunteer… it was the first time I’d known it," she told the court. “He left the house at half past five on Monday evening and never came home again.” Upon being admitted at Stepping Hill Hospital, it was discovered that Mr Garrett had a wedge fracture of his T9 vertebra in his spine.
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