The death of a man with multiple disabilities that rendered him blind and unable to walk or speak “could have been avoided” with proper hospital care, an inquest has heard.
David Lodge, 40, was found lying on the floor of his home in Hull four days after his father Peter passed away on January 12, 2022.
Davodi, who was born with dysarthia and dyspraxia, leaving him unable to speak or move his limbs normally, was diagnosed with autism and blindness in adulthood and a bout of pneumonia in 2017 also constrained him to a wheelchair.
He moved in with his dad in July 2021, but just months later, was found curled up next to his dead father by emergency workers and died in the hospital himself shortly afterwards.
An inquest into his death has heard that there were numerous failings in his hospital treatment and that he should have been referred to critical care in the Hull Royal Infirmary’s Intensive Care Unit.