A GRIEVING dad last night blamed NHS bosses for his daughter’s death from a mystery illness — after she was left in constant agony for two years. Graham Imrie, 54, told how his daughter Sha’ne endured crippling pelvic pain but medics were unable to pinpoint the problem. That led to her being discharged more than 20 times from Monklands Hospital, Airdrie, despite suffering broken bones and catching Covid, MRSA and sepsis.
And 123 recommendations for her to see a gynaecologist were not acted on. Sha’ne, of Cumbernauld, continued to suffer until earlier this year when, after her body shut down, her loved ones made the heart-rending decision to turn off her life-support machines. She was just 27.
Devastated Graham told The Scottish Sun on Sunday: “We never wanted any special treatment or to jump any queue. “All she needed was to be treated with dignity and the right care. “This is patient neglect — she never got the tests she needed.
Sha’ne was treated like she was just a number. “They robbed Sha’ne of her life, robbed us as parents, robbed her sister of her sibling, and robbed her wee girl of her mum .” The dad told how the nightmare began in April 2022 when Sha’ne visited her GP complaining of pain around her pelvis.
Most read in Health At the time she was vomiting “almost constantly”. But the doc told her it was probably a urinary tract infection — and prescribed some antibiotics. Within a day Sha’ne’s pain had become unbearable and she went.