Dr Mathuratha Sivasubramaniam, the ICU registrar working the evening Mr Hewes was admitted, was asked to review him multiple times before she phoned the ICU consultant on call and a decision was made to transfer Mr Hewes to intensive care, the inquest heard.
Bow Coroners’ Court heard Mr Hewes arrived at the hospital at 12.06am, was quickly admitted to the hospital’s resuscitation area – “resus” – before arriving at the intensive care unit (ICU) around 4am.
Extracts from Dr Burns’ statement were read by the coroner on Friday in which she expressed her belief that her son was “left unmonitored and untreated in resus for far too long” and that his care “was no better on the ICU until it was too late”.
On Thursday, the inquest heard that medical staff failed to swiftly administer antibiotics to Mr Hewes, and failed to do so within an hour of his arrival at hospital as per national guidelines.
Doctors and nurses involved in his care said they did not recall Dr Burns flagging to them that her son had yet to receive the medicine before he was finally given antibiotics at 1.25am.
