A hospital trust had agreed to pay £1.2m in compensation to a patient who lost his leg after developing blood clots following surgery.
The 59-year-old man had been scheduled for surgery at Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham on October 17, 2016 to remove a tumour from his bowel.
The operation went smoothly, however a day later he started experiencing numbness and pain in his right leg and coldness in his foot, Hull Live reports.
His lawyer claims these symptoms should have been reviewed by a specialist immediately. Instead, the patient was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and the complication was handled ‘with a completely inappropriate lack of urgency'.
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