Ray McMahon's family said he 'devoted his whole life to the NHS, but as a patient he was failed'

A respected and popular Galway-born doctor died in a Manchester hospital in February after he was given the wrong drug for a chest infection, a coroner has found.

Ray McMahon (68), who moved to Britain more than 40 years ago, went into cardiac arrest after he received an overdose of the wrong drug through an intravenous drip.

The National Health Service (NHS) trust that ra

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