{"id":169928,"date":"2023-01-21T12:57:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T12:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=169928"},"modified":"2023-01-21T12:57:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T12:57:20","slug":"girl-who-had-all-limbs-amputated-after-nhs-mistake-is-given-39m-payout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/girl-who-had-all-limbs-amputated-after-nhs-mistake-is-given-39m-payout\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl who had all limbs amputated after NHS mistake is given \u00a339m payout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A young girl who lost all four limbs due to a hospital error has been awarded a \u00a339 million settlement by the High Court.<\/p>\n

    Lawyers for the child, who cannot be identified, said she was taken to Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey with what were described as "red flags for meningitis and sepsis", including a high temperature and heart rate, leg pain, and drowsiness after vomiting.<\/p>\n

    But she was discharged after being given paracetamol, her lawyers said, and when her parents took her back to A&E a few hours later with a rash and a fever, she was diagnosed with meningococcal sepsis.<\/p>\n

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    She was transferred to the paediatric intensive care unit of another hospital and suffered from multi-organ failure, and also required several procedures including skin grafts to treat the infection.<\/p>\n

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    The young girl subsequently had above-knee amputations of both of her legs and above-elbow amputations of her arms, reports the Mirror.<\/p>\n

    Her family brought a claim against Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, arguing that if she had been treated promptly with antibiotics, she would not have been as ill and would have avoided the amputations.<\/p>\n

    An agreement was reached after the trust admitted liability.<\/p>\n

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