QUESTIONS ASKED OVER DRUGS GIVEN TO CRICKETER

By County Press Reporter - Friday, May 9, 2008

Roly Ringer.

A POPULAR Island cricketer, who died on Thursday last week, may have been wrongly prescribed drugs at St Mary’s Hospital, an inquest into his death heard.
Roland ‘Roly’ Henry Ringer, 67, of Chambers Drive, Winford, had collapsed at home on the day he died.
He had only been released from hospital three weeks prior to his death, where he had been treated for salmonella and typhoid fever and suffered a major heart attack.
In a move that raised questions from Mr Ringer’s GP and family, he was prescribed the painkiller Voltarol at the hospital, although he was already taking Warfarin.
A post mortem revealed his cause of death to be a gastro- intestinal haemorrhage resulting from an aorto-duodenal fistula.
Ischaemic heart disease was a contributing factor.
Island coroner John Matthews adjourned the inquest to a date to be fixed, pending further investigations.
Click here to read the obituary for Mr Ringer.

QUESTIONS ASKED OVER DRUGS GIVEN TO CRICKETER

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