AN EPILEPTIC patient is in intensive care with severe burns after his clothes caught fire in the smoking room of a care home.
The 47-year-old man is believed to have been refilling a cigarette lighter when he was engulfed by flames at the National Society for Epilepsy (NSE), Chesham Lane, Chalfont St Peter.
The man, who has 55 per cent burns, was rushed to Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, last Friday evening after a shocked care worker found the man unconscious and his clothes on fire.
The man has since been transferred to the specialist burns unit at East Grinstead Hospital, Sussex, and is still in intensive care.
In a statement released by the NSE, spokesman Laura Mason said: "Staff and residents are all desperately sad that this has occurred and our thoughts are with the resident for his speedy recovery.
"The police were informed as a matter of course, but there are no suspicious circumstances."
Yesterday she added: "I spoke to the director of nursing care this morning and he says the condition of the resident is thought to be improving."
The home has not confirmed how the man caught fire and or whether he was refilling his lighter at the time of the incident.
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