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A hospital trust has been told to take action following the “avoidable” death of a primary school teacher. Megan Williams had been in and out of hospital several times but died suddenly at her home in Acrise, near Folkestone, following complaints of abdominal pain. Doctors at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford believed the mother-of-one had gastritis – but she was in fact suffering from a bowel obstruction caused by previous surgery to remove her appendix in 2009. It was this undiagnosed issue that ultimately led to the death of the 40-year-old in May 2022, who was described as “simply the…

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