Evan Nathan Smith ‘would not have died if hospital workers had recognised sickle cell disease’
A patient experiencing a sickle cell crisis who rang 999 from his hospital bed after being denied oxygen would not have died if medical staff had recognised his symptoms and treated him sooner, a coroner has concluded.
Evan Nathan Smith, a 21-year-old from Walthamstow, east London, died in April 2019 in hospital after developing sepsis following a procedure to remove a gallbladder stent a week earlier.
