THE widow of a former Barnsley club steward is taking legal action against a global health care company after her husband was given a faulty batch of insulin and died.
Neil Judge, 58, was a type-1 diabetic and had administered his own insulin injections for more than 30 years.
He became unwell after an accident which had led to his right leg being amputated, and was admitted to the Sheffield Northern General Hospital.
Whilst in hospital, the insulin was administered intravenously but one of the pre-prepared syringes supplied by Fresenius Kabi, based in Runcorn, Cheshire, contained only saline and had no insulin in it.
Mr Judge went without insulin for almost 14 hours and died of multiple-organ failure on November 22, 2010. His wife Linda said the family had been left devastated by his death.
"I just don't want this to happen to anyone else. The company is at fault because they should have checked it (the syringe) before it went out of the factory. But I also think the (hospital) staff should have checked on it."
** The full story appears in the Barnsley Chronicle, dated December 12. **
