A Hong Kong patient died in a medical blunder when a special tube used for feeding him and taking medicine to his stomach through the nose was wrongly inserted into his lung.The incident took place at Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital in Tai Po.The hospital reported to the public the “sentinel event” on Wednesday.The male patient, who suffered swallowing difficulties and desaturation – the condition of a low blood oxygen concentration – was transferred from Tai Po Hospital to Alice Ho Miu…
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