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Abe Maddison

BIZARRE: Elderly man s fatal overdose after pharmacy error - What They Never Told You

Pharmacist Kin Long Lee has testified at an inquest into a death involving mislabelled medication. (Abe Maddison/AAP PHOTOS)

An elderly vision-impaired man who was given medication from an incorrectly labelled pill organiser subsequently died from a drug overdose, an inquest has heard.

South Australian coroner Emma Roper is inquiring into the death of Pelayo Del Carmen Cortes Godoy, 82, a Chilean miner who migrated to Australia with his wife Rosa in 1985.

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