By Stephen Adams Health Correspondent For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 00:01 BST, 9 June 2019 | Updated: 02:30 BST, 9 June 2019
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Health officials were last night facing claims of covering up the full scale of the NHS listeria sandwich crisis after a new case emerged in Kent.
Tanya Marston, 38, told The Mail on Sunday how she needed treatment with strong antibiotics and feared she might die after eating an infected sandwich during a stay as an inpatient at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.
On Friday, Public Health England (PHE) announced that listeria had appeared in six seriously ill in-patients.
Ms Marston ate chicken mayonnaise, ham and cheese sandwiches during a month-long stay at the Kent hospital where she was being treated for Crohn’s disease. On May 27, her temperature suddenly rose and doctors sent her for a blood test
Three of the individuals, who were being treated at hospitals in Manchester and Liverpool, had later died.
But last night PHE refused to confirm or deny that Ms Marston’s case had been included in the figures.
All those who fell ill had eaten sandwiches prepared by Staffordshire-based firm The Good Food Chain, which supplies 43 of 135 NHS hospital trusts across England.
The primary source has been traced to North Country Cooked Meats from Salford, Greater Manchester, which supplies meat to The Good Food Chain.
All those who fell ill had eaten sandwiches prepared by Staffordshire-based firm The Good Food Chain, which supplies 43 of 135 NHS hospital trusts across England
Ms Marston ate chicken mayonnaise, ham and cheese sandwiches during a month-long stay at the Kent hospital where she was being treated for Crohn’s disease.
On May 27, her temperature suddenly rose and doctors sent her for a blood test.
Despite that, Ms Marston wanted to go home and doctors discharged her on May 29.
But the following day, she was called by a consultant who told her: ‘You need to come back in. Your blood test is showing you have
