The mum of a teenager with autism and learning disabilities who died in hospital after being given the wrong medication said she was 'overwhelmed' by the response to the tragedy.
Huyton-born Paula McGowan had her whole world shaken when her son Oliver, 18, died in hospital after being given antipsychotic medication which caused severe brain swelling against his and his family's will. He died a death that would later be ruled "potentially avoidable" at Bristol Southmead Hospital on November 11, 2016.
Oliver was born in Alder Hey Children's Hospital a month early and developed bacterial meningitis at three weeks of age. Yet, by the time he was a teenager, despite further diagnoses of mild hemiplegia, focal partial epilepsy, a mild learning disability and high functioning autism, he was flourishing and had followed his love of football to the point that he was training to become a Paralympian.
