MF DOOM’s wife, Jasmine Thompson, recently challenged the hospital where he spent his last days over the quality of care they provided him. According to Leeds Live, the rapper received care from St. James Hospital after experiencing dangerous blood pressure medicine-induced facial swelling. However, Thompson claimed that the medical staff failed to offer him appropriate care as his health continued to fail. She also criticized his hospital setup. “I don’t want to say it was an old storage room…it wasn’t set up,” she said. “Maybe it was a room a long time ago. It did have a bed in it.” Additionally, the rapper’s wife was unable to physically visit him due to the COVID-19 restrictions. Eventually, he collapsed and died from “respiratory arrest.”
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Since Thompson spoke up, the hospital has actually accepted fault and apologized. Dr. Hamish McLure, Chief Medical Officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said, “I would like to offer our sincere condolences to Daniel’s family, friends and fans at this difficult time. I apologize that the care he received was not to the standard we would expect” (via Leeds Live). He continued, “Following his sad death we undertook a serious incident investigation, and the report has been shared with Daniel’s family. As a result, we have put in place a number of actions and the wider learning from what happened to be used as a teaching topic in a number of different clinical specialties.”
