Diabetic patient collapsed and died while searching for food in hospital

Belinda FeekOpen Justice multimedia journalist, Waikato·NZ Herald·2 Aug, 2026 05:00 PM8 mins to read‌Lois Clarkson pictured with her husband Colin, a diabetic, who died unexpectedly in Waikato Hospital in December 2019 after falling and hitting his head while searching for food. Coroner Donna Llewell found Clarkson's death was preventable. Photo / SuppliedA widow of a diabetic and cardiac patient who collapsed and later died while searching for food in Waikato Hospital says he was coherent, talking and comfortable when she’d last seen him just hours earlier.

But somehow, Colin John Clarkson’s blood glucose levels [BGL] had managed to drop to a