A grandmother claims she intends to sue a Welsh health board over the death of her husband who contracted Covid while at work. Gareth Roberts died in hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on April 11, 2020, aged 65 after catching Covid while working as a bank nurse at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in March 2020.
His widow Linda Roberts, 76, said Gareth should have been risk assessed. Mrs Roberts said assessments would have shown that her late husband suffered with type two diabetes and shouldn’t have been working on a Covid ward.
In an inquest into Mr Roberts’ death last month coroner Graeme Hughes concluded that he died as a result of industrial disease – a potentially pioneering outcome. But Mr Hughes said Mr Roberts’ age, sex, and health would not have triggered the need for the health board to carry out an individual risk assessment.
