October 12th, 2009
A soldier who served in Iraq has died after receiving the lungs of a smoker which had a cancerous tumour inside.
Corporal Matthew Millington, 31, developed an incurable lung condition in 2005 and was told he would need a lung transplant in order to survive.
He had the operation at Cambridge’s Papworth Hospital in April 2007, but was not able to breathe as easily as he was told he should.
Almost a year later, it was found that one of the lungs – which had come from someone who smoked up to 50 roll-ups a day – had a cancerous tumour. Despite undergoing cancer treatment, Corporal Millington died in February 2008.
The hospital admitted that use of immuno-supressant drugs after the transplant accelerated the cancer’s growth, but insisted that such incidents are rare.
Although Corporal Millington’s family is not seeking compensation from the hospital, anyone who feels they have not received adequate treatment should seek the advice of a solicitor in order to pursue a clinical negligence claim.
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July 16th, 2009
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is being sued by a former engineer who claims that the organisation failed to protect him while he was working on a project in Iraq.
Graham Hopps, 45, had been involved in the construction of a power plant in 2003 and was travelling in a Land Rover with his colleagues when a bomb went off.
The blast ripped out Mr Hopps’ shoulder and decapitated another man, which Mr Hopps said still causes him nighmares.
Due to his physical and mental injuries, he has been unable to return to work with the MoD and is now taking legal action against the military body, as well as the engineering company Mott MacDonald.
He claims that the route the team had been ordered to take was "unapproved" and that they should have been given an armoured vehicle.
"In some kind of fatal lottery, my employers and the MoD took unnecessary risks by deciding that others, not me, would get the protection," he commented.
The MoD said it would be inappropriate to comment.
Earlier this month, the MoD was forced to pay compensation to Irish Guards officer Charles Radclyffe after he was injured while jumping into a reservoir, the Salisbury Journal reported.
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