Dad caught up in Stoke-on-Trent TB outbreak refuses NHS test - now he's deadThe healthcare worker was one of 370 people offered the testView Image Osazuwa Igbinidu passed away from tuberculosis in the Royal Stoke Hospital last year. NHS officials screened 340 people for TB after a Stoke-on-Trent healthcare worker sparked an outbreak. ‌But 30 of them - including healthcare worker Osazuwa Igbinidu - did not come forward to be tested. ‌Now an inquest has ruled that the dad-of-four had non-contagious TB when he passed away at the Royal Stoke University Hospital in March 2025. “What if he had active TB and coughed on a child when he took the children to school?

Source: Daily Mirror February 28, 2026 20:15 UTC