A fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the death of a Fife man who was the first healthy Scot to die from swine flu.
Psychiatric nurse Bill Anderson, of Kirkcaldy, died at Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline last September having been told by a doctor days before that he had a common strain of the virus.
His family have struggled to come to terms with their loss and are demanding answers to why the fit 53-year-old was sent home from Kirkcaldy’s Victoria Hospital with antibiotics.
Three days after being discharged, Mr Anderson’s condition worsened and he was rushed to QMH by ambulance suffering from breathing problems. He died the next day from pneumonia.
His daughter Monica, whom he had walked down the aisle nine weeks earlier, was just weeks away from giving birth to his first grandchild at the time.
The father of two, who had worked as an RAF medic and a nurse at Broadmoor high security hospital in Berkshire, fell ill shortly after a holiday in Tenerife with his wife Lynda.
The inquiry will be held at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
An NHS Fife spokeswoman said, “NHS Fife will participate and assist in the fatal accident inquiry.”
