‘No answers’ to patient’s death in hospital fire

MYSTERY surrounds the death of a wheelchair- bound man who suffered horrific burns in a Dublin hospital fire.

Stroke victim Percy Hopkins died within days of his wheelchair going up in flames in the Royal Hospital, Donnybrook.

An inquest heard the 60-year-old was left with burns to 35% of his upper body after staff discovered his clothing was on fire.

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