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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Adam Dutton

Care home claims ‘revolting’ discovery in woman’s wounds was caused by heatwave

SWNS

An elderly dementia patient living in a £4,000-a-month nursing home had maggots crawling inside an open wound, which bosses blamed on “a heatwave”.

Kathleen Hines, 92, was having a cancer-triggered sore checked when staff made the revolting discovery.

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