NEW YORK, Jul 12, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A mentally ill woman who died on the
floor of a New York hospital emergency room was killed by blood cots, medical
officials say.
The New York City medical examiner's office said Esmin Green died from clots,
generated from in her leg veins from a long period of inactivity, that moved
into her lungs, CNN reported Saturday.
Security camera video from June 18 showed Green, a Jamaican immigrant, lying on
the floor of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, after being
involuntarily admitted for what the hospital described as "agitation and
psychosis." The footage showed hospital employees and other patients passing her
by without helping, CNN said.
The broadcaster said Green's blood clots came from deep vein thrombosis, which
complicated her chronic paranoid schizophrenia.
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