OTTAWA • A $30-million class-action lawsuit has been brought against The Ottawa Hospital, led by a 60-year-old engineer from Chalk River who says he suffered a recurrence of skin cancer because the hospital didn’t give him the right radiation dose.
According to a statement of claim whose allegations have not been tested in court, David John Watts received radiation treatment for basal cell carcinoma on his nose in March 2006. During a three-year-period that began in November 2004, the claim says, a machine that administers radiation at the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital was incorrectly calibrated, and 326 patients, including Mr. Watts, received up to 17 per cent less radiation than was indicated.
