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The family of a man with Down's Syndrome , who tragically died after he was reportedly left starving for over a week in an NHS hospital, have spoken out about their ordeal. ‌

Adrian Poulton, 56, was a patient at Poole Hospital in Dorset in September 2021, recovering from a fall at his care home which caused a broken hip. ‌

During his stay, staff are said to have marked him as "nil by mouth" by mistake, meaning he was given no food for nine days. He died on September 28, just two weeks after being admitted . ‌

His father Derek Poulton told ITV News: “Not being medical, we just naturally thought he was having nutrition, a feed. But as it turns out, they were starving him.”

By the time the family realised what had happened, he was already too unwell to get bet

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