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A senior citizen from Cambridgeshire has received a payout of clinical negligence compensation from a hospital there after his wife died as a result of contracting hospital superbug Clostridium difficile.
The clinical negligence compensation payout, totalling £12,500, can do little to ease the widowed husband's pain over the tragedy.
He commented, "It's not about the money, nothing can bring my wife back. I just want to warn other people and hope that something gets done about how people are treated.
"I'm angry and want to publicise what goes on so other families don't have to go through the same thing. Lots of people have no one to fight their corner and that must feel terrible and very frightening as well. "Once you reach retirement age it's as though you are written off by hospitals and it's not right."
The personal injury solicitor who represented the widower's clinical negligence compensation claim explained some details of the settlement. "The hospital never admitted liability but they did apologise to [the claimant] for what he and his family had been through and what his wife had been through prior to her death. "The fact that the hospital was prepared to make a substantial payment indicates that they do accept some responsibility for what happened."
Meanwhile, the hospital released the following statement on the case: "This patient was admitted to hospital with a complex condition and although she received appropriate treatment she was unable to fight-off a later infection. We have already apologised to the family. "Clostridium difficile can occur as one of the normal bacteria in healthy adults without causing problems. But it can cause illness when certain antibiotics disturb the balance of normal bacteria in the body."
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