5th December 2010


Twenty-nine patients have died in one night at St Mungo's Hospital, London and tens more are seriously ill as healing potions designed to treat their minor ailments turned to poison.

Patients are reported to be crying blood, delirious, struck with uncontrollable lumious vomit, or in comatose sleep. The twenty-nine since 9 o'clock yesterday evening each died following agonising hours of their symptoms. The St Mungo's healers are reportedly baffled, only able to watch their patients die.

Admissions have tripled overnight, with no clear cause of the outbreak confirmed, whether this be disease, illness or something else. Families report that the healers are in panic - clear by reports this morning that Head Healer, Miranda Elliot has fallen victim and is now comatose too.

With numbers of admissions rising and more deaths expected today, should the public be concerned? St Mungo's were reached for comment but as yet no official statement has been issued.

Meanwhile who knows if those seemingly innocent healing potions at home could prove deadly?



"She only needed to regrow the bones in her right foot, but she cried tears of blood. They didn't know what it was. They killed our little girl." - a mother's anguish at the loss of their bright, beautiful daughter, Camille Kendrick (6), last night following a routine dose of skelegrow and pain-relief potion.

"Little Mila got hold of her father's wand, vanished all the bones in her foot. We brought her to St Mungo's for the best care and to come home with us in a few hours. A story we could tell her when she was older. We never expected it would be the last time we would hold our daughter."

The Kendricks are not the only family grieving this morning. Ruth Cutterly (102), is a widow this morning as her husband, Boris Cutterly (104) only visited complained of an upset stomach.
"He were right as rain, just a little upset stomach. We thought it were just the fish pie we ate for tea." Madam Cutterly explained through her sobs. The cause of death is still to be confirmed. "I know he were a bit grumpy with the healers, he was with everyone, but they didn't have to take my husband."

With Head Healer Miranda Elliot in a deep comatose sleep without signs of waking, St Mungo's Hospital is without a leader in its hour of need. We asked Mr Jacob Carter for comment, as a Member of the Board and Healer Elliot's father.

DP: Mr Carter, would the hospital be as focused in sorting this disaster if the Head Healer, your daughter, wasn’t poisoned herself?

JC: Head Healer Elliot being poisoned doesn’t change anything. We have a duty of care to our patients and we are doing everything possible to find the cause.

DP: So who is responsible for leading the hospital out of this crisis without someone at the helm? Is it all falling apart?

JC: Our Healers-in-Charge are more than capable of resolving these issues.

DP: When they’ve finished poisoning patients?

JC: Not one of our healers has knowingly poisoned a patient, Sir.

DP: I can believe that considering your daughter, Mrs Elliot, poisoned herself. Are your healers actually competent?

Mr Carter declined to comment further.