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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Adam Dutton

Mother dies from cancer after hospital discharged her despite telltale symptoms

Irwin Mitchell / SWNS

The family of a mother who died from bowel cancer after being wrongly discharged from a hospital and left in agony for months have received an apology from the NHS.

Baljeet Kaur, 56, was twice “negligently” sent home from Sandwell Hospital in West Bromwich after she went to A&E displaying telltale symptoms.

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