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.
Counsel assisting Greg Dudzinski told the court Mr Cortes, who had minimal vision in his right eye and lost his left eye in a crash, relied on his wife to collect his seven prescribed medications from Chemist Warehouse Parabanks in Salisbury, in Adelaide's north.
