Police in Greater Manchester have said a fifth patient has died after she was apparently poisoned with insulin when saline drips were sabotaged at Stepping Hill hospital last summer.
The patient, who was named by the Manchester Evening News as Linda McDonagh, 60, is one of 21 people who police believe were affected when their drips was deliberately contaminated with insulin at the hospital in Hazel Grove, Stockport.
Tests are continuing to establish the precise cause of death as McDonagh, from Offerton, had a serious underlying health condition.
She was one of a number of patients who suffered a ‘hypoglycaemic episode’ after the drips were contaminated on medical wards at the hospital in June and July 2011. The deaths of Tracey Arden, 44, Arnold Lancaster, 71, Derek Weaver, 83, and William Dickson, 82, are being treated as suspicious.
Read more in The Guardian.
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