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MHARI KELLY

A DOCTOR made two critical mistakes which led to the death of a 62-year-old woman, an inquest has heard.

Margaret Poole died after routine surgery at Leighton Hospital went wrong.

An inquest in Crewe heard that Mrs Poole would almost certainly have been alive today - if the errors had not been made in surgery.

Dr Kaleem Toori was supposed to drain fluid from her right lung - but started the procedure on her left lung by mistake.

He should then have ordered for an urgent X-ray to be taken to check there had been no damage - but he failed to do so.

Cheshire coroner Nicholas Rheinberg recorded a verdict of misadventure on Mrs Poole, of Shipbrook Road, Rudheath.

But after the inquest, Mrs Poole's daughter, Judith Finney, of Gowy Walk, Winsford, said that she was not satisfied with the verdict and would fight to have Dr Toori struck off the register.

She said: "We are going to pursue this with the General Medical Council because he should be down graded or struck off completely. At the end of the day he admitted his mistakes so something should be done.

"I can't help thinking that if my mum had not gone in for that operation she would still be here today."

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