Families of two transplant patients who died after being given kidneys infected with rare parasitic worms have urged the health board to make changes. Robert Stuart and Darren Hughes both died from a parasite known as halicephalobus, which lives in soil and is often found in horses. An inquest ruled that the decision to use the kidneys was correct.
The coroner taking the inquest into the deaths of two men who died after infected kidney transplants at the University of Wales last December has retired to consider his verdict.
He told the families of the two men in court this morning that he will be reaching a narrative conclusion, but he wants to reflect on all the evidence before beginning his summing up.
Darren Hughes, who was 47 and from Bridgend,and Robert Stuart who was 67 and from Cardiff, both died from meningitis which had come from their kidney donor. The illness was caused by a rare parasitic worm, more commonly found in horses.
The two Welshmen were the first human-to-human recorded cases of the parasite in medical history.
Rain clipping the far north through the evening but elsewhere staying dry with some sunny spells.
Public Health Wales figures show 25 more cases of the virus have also been confirmed.
Photos taken on Saturday morning show Roald Dahl Plass strewn with empty beer bottles and discarded canisters of laughing gas.