The husband of a care worker who died after suffering with pain for years has shared his heartbreak and says the GP system "needs to be looked at". 

Taiwo Aiyeola was aged just 32 when she died at her home at Greenwood Mews in Bolton after suffering a cardiac arrest on May 28 last year.

At Bolton Coroners' Court, her husband, Olakunle Ajisebutu, said Taiwo was the "core of the family" and "loved by all" after her sudden death.

The care worker from Nigeria had been in agonising pain over the years with excessive bleeding during her menstrual flow.

Olakunle said: “It is painful and something I am still struggling with.

“It unfortunately happened, and the wounds are fresh again, and time and time again I will have her picture in my head.

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“I would like to look at the process of the GP practices as I understand it is busy, but the system needs to be looked at as we could never get an appointment.

“Our case was ordinary but became extraordinary, and I will say that back in Nigeria it’s not like this and I can get a doctor’s appointment.

“It is heartbreaking, and I was hoping to raise money to see if I could sort it out privately.”

Coroner Peter Sigee heard from 12 doctors who Taiwo had seen at some point before her death.

On most occasions, Taiwo had presented with shortness of breath, chest pain, and excessive bleeding in her uterus.

But her condition was never diagnosed, although a postmortem investigation carried out by Dr Patrick Waugh found the cause of death to be due to pulmonary embolism and deep-vein thrombosis (DVT).

Taiwo's family said there had been neglect in her care as she visited Royal Bolton Hospital on numerous occasions for her pain.

Doctors at the inquest told Mr Sigee that while there was a risk Taiwo had deep-vein thrombosis, a blood clot usually formed in the leg, there were other things her symptoms also alluded to. And after a test to check her calves, there was no other test done to check if she had it.

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Dr Amy Nickson led the investigation for the Royal Bolton and admitted a d-dimer test to check for DVT should have been done by doctors but said she was "confident any doctor in the same positions would have done the same things".

Mr Sigee said: “There were missed opportunities to investigate Taiwo’s condition, and if investigation had been undertaken when first indicted, then pulmonary embolism would have been detected and Taiwo’s death at this time would have been prevented.”

The coroner gave a short narrative conclusion and recorded the death as 1A pulmonary embolism, with 1B deep-vein thrombosis and 1C, uterine leiomyoma, caused by natural causes.