Jury rules baby died of natural causes despite nurse’s error in medical tube check

The Coroner’s Court has ruled that a premature baby born at a Hong Kong public hospital died of natural causes, after an inquest into her death revealed that a tube delivering medicine had remained closed for 30 minutes despite repeated checks by staff.The baby girl, Angel Yu Pui-fei, was born in June 2023 at 27 weeks’ gestation at Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin and admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit due to complications arising from her premature birth.The court earlier heard evidence suggesting that a veteran nurse had failed to notice that the valve of an infusion tube delivering medicine to the patient was closed, even though she said she had inspected it three times.