The family of pensioner Elfreida Benjamin, who died after she was hospitalized following the use of expired medication reportedly given to her by a public healthcare facility, has decided to seek legal advice on how to proceed with the matter.
“I don’t believe that I will get any justice or see any proper action taken in this matter of my wife’s death which I believe was caused by negligence on the part of the hospital if I do not take matters into my own hands,” widower George Benjamin told Stabroek News on Sunday.
Last month, Elfreida, 74, had visited the Leonora Cottage Hospital (LCH) several times for treatment. On her last visit to the hospital at the