A 'devoted' family man caught Covid-19 in hospital and died, weeks after being admitted with severe back pain. A consultant from Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport told an inquest that the virus "most likely" came from a staff member who did not know they had it
South Manchester Coroner's Court heard that Malcolm Garrett, of Marple Bridge, had received a lung transplant eight years earlier and as a result was immunosuppressed. Following the 61-year-old's death, a senior coroner has vowed to write a prevention of future deaths report to the Health Secretary, to try and "avoid and minimise the risk of immunosuppressed transplant patients in acute settings".
Mr Garrett's daughter Laura told the inquest that since his transplant, he had not been as active or mobile as before but that he had "gained a new perspective of what was manageable with his level of ability".
