THE family of a young woman who died in hospital from a "massive" blood clot are to make a complaint after an inquest heard of a number of inexplicable delays and decisions.

Gemma Gill, 20, died at Westmorland General Hospital on Easter Saturday, just hours after being discharged by doctors, in what the coroner described as a "one-in-ten thousand" tragedy.

At Kendal's County Hall on Tuesday, family and friends packed into an inquest to face representatives of Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS Trust and hear doctors admit that things might have turned out differently.

The popular hairdresser, from Hill Close, Kendal, died in the early hours of the morning after developing leg pain four weeks after having surgery on her varicose veins. After being told the pain was simply her leg healing, a blood clot in Miss Gill's left leg travelled to her lung.

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