Flustered Filipino nurse killed pensioner in blood transfusion blunder

A Filipino nurse killed a pensioner in a blood transfusion blunder after getting flustered and mixing up his name with another patient, a court heard. Lea Ledesma, 48, gave 76-year-old Ali Huseyin AB-type blood meant for fellow patient Irfan Hussain, 37, at the London Heart Hospital in Westmoreland Street, central London. Doctors ordered the transfusion when the pensioner – who needed O-type blood – started to lose blood from his chest drain at 9.30am following a successful heart bypass the…