A new study revealed that hundreds of patients every year are being exposed to potentially harmful radiation levels due to errors by hospital staff and by defective apparatus. The health regulator the Care Quality Commission released information for last year in which statistics shown that there were about five hundred incidents where patients were provided an erroneous dosage.
Overdoses due to human or technical fault can cause burns and escort to radiation poisoning and cancer. The patients at many hospitals were expose to damaging rays during needless X-rays or as the wrong part of their body was X-rayed.
One patient at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust received hundred times the suggested dose while having an X-ray. The researchers were not clear how many of the five hundred patients suffered the side X-ray side effects. Thirty incidents in which patients had received over doses gratuitously, reported The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Trust in King’s Lynn.
Whereas, twenty-one incidents recorded by the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. It is horrific that patients who trust their doctors to treat them should face harm from excess radiation, Joyce Robins of Patient Concern