A 75-year-old pneumonia patient died after a nurse inserted a tube into an airway instead of his stomach.
The tube was discovered in a chest X-ray a day after it was inserted.
A spokesman for St John Hospital in Cheung Chau, where the man died, expressed condolences to his family members.
The man, suffering from pneumonia and bedsores, was admitted to the hospital on July 23. He was bedridden and had difficulty swallowing.
He began to be fed through a nasogastric tube three days after admission and was also given oxygen to maintain the supply in his blood.
A nurse removed his old tube and inserted a new one on Monday but accidentally inserted it into his bronchus. The patient's vital signs were unchanged when the mistake was discovered the following day, but his condition deteriorated, and he was certified dead at 10pm that day.
