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HMP Forest Bank didn't 'understood needs of prisoner' with no spleen

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A man on remand at Forest Bank prison in Salford died aged 50 from septicaemia. Russell West - who had been in prison before and was said to have had a history of using illegal drugs behind bars - had his spleen removed in 2003.

A coroner recorded a verdict that he died of natural causes following an inquest, but the prisons watchdog has now told Forest Bank to comply with a series of recommendations concerning inmates with no spleen.

A now published report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO), which investigates deaths in custody, revealed a clinical reviewer 'was not satisfied that healthcare staff understood the needs of a prisoner who had undergone a splenectomy and that Mr West was at an increased risk of developing a serious infection' because of it. READ MORE: Peter Kay's Co-op Live gigs cancelled AGAIN with The Black Keys concert also postponed Healthcare staff at the prison, added the report, 'did not recognise the importance of the need to establish if Mr West had been fully vaccinated and if he was taking prophylactic antibiotics'.

The body's spleen fights infections, with anyone having a splenectomy open to an increased risk of severe infection for life.

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