Hospital records altered after 21-year-old man sent home with incorrect flu diagnosis dies of meningitis
A 21-year-old man from Tunbridge Wells, UK, died of meningitis after the hospital he was admitted at misdiagnosed him with stomach flu. Latest reports state that the hospital records of the young man's condition were altered shortly after his death.
Tim Mason, who had flu-like symptoms, was sent home from Tunbridge Wells Hospital's A&E department in March 2018 after he was told that he had gastroenteritis. However, within hours the 21-year-old was rushed back to the hospital where he later died from a cardiac arrest, according to the Mirror.
An inquest on Monday heard that a probe into the young trainee electrical engineer's death revealed that the hospital's A&E department had failed to diagnose his sepsis and that a third party later altered his hospital records.