A WOMAN who was admitted to hospital after a fall sadly contracted coronavirus which contributed to her death, an inquest has heard.

Jill Futter sadly passed away on February 2 this year at Stoke Mandeville Hospital at 88 years old.

The widower from Bullocks Farm Lane in High Wycombe fell over on December 27 last year leading to admission into hospital.

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Over a month later, after contracting coronavirus in the hospital, she passed away with the medical cause of death being a combination of a femoral fracture, heart disease, covid-19, and atrial flutter.

An inquest into her death was carried out on Wednesday, August 2 at Beaconsfield Coroners’ Court to determine how, when and where she passed away.

Senior coroner Crispin Giles Butler ruled her cause of death as an accident due to the femoral fracture leading to her being in the hospital where she caught covid-19, an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus which has taken hundreds of lives across the UK.

Opening the inquest, Mr Butler explained that Jill had fallen in her bathroom at about 5.30am and had called her son two hours later to be taken into the hospital.

X-Rays showed the fracture, but the hospital staff were worried about whether she would survive the surgery. Instead, she was placed into a long cast which was frequently cleaned and changed.

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However, during her stay in the hospital, Mr Butler stated Jill was ‘really very poorly and not improving’.

She caught the virus on December 29, only two days after her admission.

Surgery was planned due to the level of pain she was describing, and death was ‘described as a risk factor’.

However, the surgery was cancelled as Jill had accidentally been given breakfast the morning of the appointment. Mr Butler describes the accident as ‘maybe for the best’, believing she may not have survived the surgery.

Jill then continued to sadly decline and a doctor ‘felt it could be an end-of-life situation’.

Mr Butler concluded: “She died as a result of her fracture, aggravated by chest infections. She did not have a history of falls.

“She could have passed away in the future because of these things but sadly she didn’t.

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“I rule her death being an accident overall. ‘Accident’ is the correct conclusion here given the central issue of the fracture.”

He offered her family his condolences being closing the inquest. Jill’s daughter and son-in-law were present during the hearing.

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