Pensioner 'choked to death on jelly after hospital medics ignored fatal warning'

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Pensioner 'choked to death on jelly after hospital medics ignored fatal warning'

AN ELDERLY man with swallowing difficulties choked to death on jelly after hospital staff ignored a fatal warning. Edward Cassin, described as a “ray of sunshine”, was diagnosed with dysphagia – swallowing problems – and type 2 diabetes. Family HandoutEdward Cassin, 67, died after being wrongly fed jelly by hospital staff[/caption] Dysphagia suffers are not to be fed jelly because it turns to liquid in the mouth, which can go into the lungs and …