A newly filed
lawsuit accuses the University of New Mexico Hospital of providing substandard
care to child cancer patients several decades ago.
The proposed class-action
suit filed Tuesday in state District Court in Albuquerque alleges that substandard care
between 1977 and 1997 included patients receiving improper medications and
treatments.
The suit was filed on behalf of a woman and her son who died in
1988 at age 19 of complications from leukemia, but it says a class of
plaintiffs could cover up to 1,000 children and their families.
Hospital
spokesman Billy Sparks told the Albuquerque Journal that hospital
officials hadn't been formally notified of the filing and hadn't had a chance
to read the suit.
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