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A man in Sweden has died after he swallowed the entire packaging around his prescription medicine and it ripped a hole in his intestine.
The man was in hospital at the time and recovering from a heart operation when he tried to take the pill and ingested its plastic casing at the same time.
The incident is now being investigated by Sweden?s Health and Social Care Inspectorate, according to reports in the country?s English-language news service The Local.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...swallowing-pill-in-its-packaging-8834978.html
The man was in hospital at the time and recovering from a heart operation when he tried to take the pill and ingested its plastic casing at the same time.
The incident is now being investigated by Sweden?s Health and Social Care Inspectorate, according to reports in the country?s English-language news service The Local.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...swallowing-pill-in-its-packaging-8834978.html
