Dying patient, 30, 'was kicked out of hospital for being "uncooperative" and forced into a taxi wher [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Daily Mail

Dying patient, 30, 'was kicked out of hospital for being "uncooperative" and forced into a taxi where he was found dead by his mother when he arrived home'

• A'Darrin Washington was found 'cold to the touch' in the taxi after being discharged from a Fayetteville, North Carolina hospital in 2011
  
• A nurse ordered Washington, who had cancer and pneumonia, to be discharged after he became 'uncooperative' and 'refused to talk or move'
  
• Security guards carried him from his wheelchair and strapped him into the taxi - even though other hospital staff expressed concern
  
• His distraught mother is now suing the hospital's security company
  

By Lydia Warren
PUBLISHED: 15:03 EST, 18 December 2013 | UPDATED: 15:04 EST, 18 December 2013

A dying patient who was escorted out of a North Carolina hospital for being 'uncooperative' was loaded into a taxi where he was later found dead by his mother, she has claimed.

Deborah Washington has filed a lawsuit against AlliedBurton Security Services claiming their staff at Cumberland County Hospital forcibly removed her adult son even though he was dying or already dead.

She claims that the guards took A'Darrin Washington, 30, from the hospital, carried him from his wheelchair to a waiting taxi, buckled him up and sent him home even though he was gravely ill.

Mr Washington was found dead in the back of the taxi when he arrived home 45 minutes later.

He had been discharged from the hospital on November 22, 2011 after undergoing treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and fungal pneumonia - after initially being misdiagnosed.


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