Elderly woman went blind after GP misdiagnosed her eye condition

Joan Foulis ended up in a care residence, fell and died after she grew to become blind (Image: Osbornes Regulation/ SWNS)

A person whose aged mum went blind after a GP misdiagnosed her eye situation claims she would nonetheless be alive as we speak if she had been identified correctly.

Joan Foulis was 82 when she was despatched residence by Aatif Malik from Broadstairs Medical Follow, Kent, with some pores and skin cream for a suspected eye an infection.

However he didn’t recognise she was affected by shut angle glaucoma which was slowly destroying her imaginative and prescient.

Over the subsequent 5 days her imaginative and prescient deteriorated additional and regardless of calls to the physician’s surgical procedure she was not seen by a GP.

However Joan’s son, Steve Foulis, noticed the pores and skin cream Dr Malik despatched Joan residence with which acknowledged ‘wash out instantly if by chance put in eyes’ on the packaging.

She was then admitted to hospital 12 days after first visiting Dr Malik and was instructed by docs she had glaucoma and was unlikely to ever regain her sight.

After shedding her sight, Joan was moved to a care residence the place she ultimately fell and died.

In addition to successful a civil motion case and £235,000, her household now need solutions from the Common Medical Council (GMC) – which didn’t give Dr Malik a warning, and who nonetheless works as a GP.

Medical doctors had been compelled to inform Joan she would lose her sight due to the glaucoma (Image: Osbornes Regulation/SWNS)

Her household had been awarded £235,000 following her demise (Image: Osbornes Regulation/SWNS)

Steve, 65, was represented by Osbornes Regulation and mentioned he was surprised the GMC did nothing regardless of her care falling ‘critically beneath the usual anticipated of a fairly competent GP’.

‘The way in which my mom was handled was disgraceful and if it wasn’t for the physician’s shockingly negligent failings, her sight could have been saved,’ he mentioned.

‘She should still be right here as we speak if she hadn’t misplaced her sight as a result of it set off a domino impact of occasions that led to her shifting right into a care residence and ultimately having the autumn.’

The GMC mentioned Dr Malik’s misdiagnosis was a ‘single episode’ and there was ‘no lifelike prospect of demonstrating he was an ongoing danger’.

Stephanie Prior, head of medical negligence at Osbornes Regulation, mentioned: ‘Joan was an energetic and impartial girl who lived alone till she unnecessarily misplaced her sight.

‘The GP’s actions in her care had been nothing wanting a listing of errors and we're happy that we had been capable of safe a monetary settlement for the household due to the negligent care.

‘Joan’s household are understandably devastated at what occurred to her and the GMC ruling did little to assuage that ache.’

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