Grace's parents 'more than convinced' death was avoidable

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The parents of Grace O-Malley-Kumar has said they are 'more than convinced' their daughter's death could have been avoided if Valdo Calocane had been treated with 'any form of responsibility', adding they wanted the medical staff involved in his care to be held accountable. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We are absolutely heartbroken by the number of times that Callicane's course could have been
00:07altered. We are absolutely heartbroken and devastated by the missed opportunities. He
00:13was sectioned four times and each time he was sectioned his treatment didn't change or people
00:19couldn't be bothered to change his treatment. To actually give someone an injectable medication
00:25that lasts a long time so you don't have to take medication daily was not sought.
00:30Community treatment orders that force a patient to take their medication in the community
00:35was not done. It is just every opportunity that could have been missed was missed. This is an
00:41absolute tragedy that this happened because I'm more than convinced that this was wholly
00:50avoidable if this person had been treated with any form of responsibility whatsoever.
00:56It was lazy and quite frankly we believe that the clinicians involved and the staff involved
01:04need to be held accountable because basically homicide does not occur without problems and
01:09delivery of standard clinical care to patients and he did not receive that and as a result the
01:15consequences have been disastrous, heartbreaking and life-destroying.

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