Our client sustained a needle stick injury whilst he was an inpatient, causing him a great deal of distress and avoidable pain and suffering.
Our client presented to the hospital with abdominal pains. As he had contracted two hospital-acquired infections whilst an inpatient at the same hospital a few weeks earlier, he was admitted under their care and placed in a side room for observation. Later,when our client was getting out of bed, he stepped on a needle.
Since this incident, our client has had to undergo numerous tests including an x-ray and blood tests for HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C, the results of which he has only recently obtained.
Understandably, this incident has caused our client a great deal of distress as well as pain and suffering which could have been avoided by the defendant hospital.
Our client was successful in his clinical negligence claim against the hospital and was awarded £2,500 in damages.
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