{"id":815757,"date":"2026-10-27T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815757\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:36:09","slug":"norwich-mothers-sickle-cell-pain-concerns-raised-at-inquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815757\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich mother&#8217;s sickle cell pain concerns raised at inquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family of a 32-year-old mother said she faced &#8220;ridicule&#8221; from hospital staff when she sought urgent care for pain caused by sickle cell disease, an inquest has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Veronique Mwembo had lived with the genetic disease all her life and was being treated at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) for bacterial infections, area coroner Yvonne Blake said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mother of one, who lived in Norwich, had administered medication to herself incorrectly, leading to a cardiac arrest which resulted in her death on 23 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At an inquest into her death, her family said her mental health deteriorated after she had said she repeatedly felt dismissed by staff about her pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in 1993 in Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mwembo moved to the UK with her family after fleeing civil war in 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was described as &#8220;the kindest, most joyful, and warmest person&#8221; by her family during the inquest on Monday, which heard she had struggled with acute pain caused by sickle cell disease throughout her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of a 32-year-old mother said she faced &#8220;ridicule&#8221; from hospital staff when she sought urgent care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}