Former Socceroo Steve Herczeg, who died in hospital because his urinary catheter was wrongly connected to an oxygen supply, bursting his bladder, did not receive adequate nursing care, an inquest has found.
South Australian Coroner Mark Johns has described the 72-year-old's death in September last year as "cruelly painful" and, assuming that no one intended to kill him, entirely preventable.
"It is plain to me that the nursing staff responsible for his care did not provide an adequate level of care and supervision," Mr Johns said in his findings on Thursday.
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