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Sarah Vesty

Diabetic Scots gran given fizzy juice in hospital after staff failed to tell family of diagnosis

The daughter of a Scots gran has hit out after hospital staff failed to tell her the pensioner had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.

Joanne Weir had been bringing in fizzy juice for her 88-year-old mum during her stay at Monklands Hospital in Airdrie earlier this month.

But the family only found out about the OAP’s condition following a ‘flippant’ remark about administering insulin from a nurse on Ward 22.

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