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Ryan McDougall

Elderly woman moved into ‘red’ ward despite not having Covid, inquiry hears

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An elderly woman was forced to stay in a hospital ward rife with coronavirus, her daughter has told the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry.

Margaret Kilpatrick told the inquiry that her mother, who was 89 at the time, was taken from her care home to a hospital in Scotland for emergency surgery under the promise she would be taken to a “green pathway ward” – meaning there was a guarantee of no Covid on the ward.

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