Fatal drug switch on busy ward

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Fatal drug switch on busy ward

Morag McDowell 2022
Commissioner Morag McDowell says a woman’s chart, with a penicillin allergy warning, was at her bedside when Augmentin was fatally given [Image: Supplied]
A woman with a severe penicillin allergy died after being injected with Augmentin despite multiple safeguards that included a medical alert necklace a