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The family of a patient who died after being found bruised and unconscious in a Wellington hospital elevator is still angry at the way staff handled his death.
This is just the latest controversy for the embattled Capital and Coast Health Board.
The patient had a triple bypass early this year and was in the hospital with stomach pains.
He had been missing 20 minutes before he was found bruised and unconscious in a hospital lift.
His family is still grieving for a lost son and brother.
"I miss him, he was my oldest son, he was only 43," says his mother Betty Vidal.
She has been a registered nurse for over 35 years and says the hospital never called her to say her son was in ICU, and when she went to see him, she was locked out.
"I was left outside the intensive care for two hours...nobody came out to talk," she says.
The hospital has apologised in a letter, admitting staff made it look like (on hospital records) that they had rung Betty Vidal to say her son was in intensive care, when in fact they hadn't.
They also apologised for locking her out of ICU while her son was dying inside.
This latest revelation tops off the week from hell for the hospital.
Its CEO, Margot Mains resigned on Wednesday and the public is still smarting after a baby died, whose mother was discharged just hours after giving birth.
On Thursday, a leaked draft plan showed the board considered slashing 50 doctors from staff to cut costs.
"That report should be put in the rubbish bin. Bin it, it serves no practical benefit, it's destructive," says Ian Powell of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists.
The Government will decide the future of Capital and Coast Health Board on Monday.
