A British girl got a settlement $48.3 million (£39 million) with the hospital that he mistakenly amputated all of his limbs.
The National Health Service (NHS) trustee this Friday admitted his responsibility in the High Court of Londoninformed Metro, and will now have to pay financially to the affected young woman and her family.
Bradley Martin, representative of the trust, acknowledged that “there is no amount of money that can truly compensate for your injuries“.
“However, we are delighted that the settlement has been approved and hope that the agreed damages will ensure that the claimant can live as independently as possible in the future,” an NHS spokesman added.
It was stipulated on Friday that the girl will receive part of the settlement in a lump sum and the rest every year for the rest of her life.
The case
The young woman (there are no details about her age or when the wrong discharge occurred) arrived with her parents at the Frimley Park Hospitalin Surrey, England, with vomiting and fevertwo symptoms that are “red flags for meningitis and sepsis,” according to the BBC.
In response, the doctors sent her home on paracetamol or paracetamol. But the girl got worse and her parents had to take her back to the health centre.
Once there he was diagnosed meningococcal sepsiswhich would later lead to multiple organ failure, the family representative confirmed, Elizabeth Anna Gumbel KC, at the BBC.
Due to the severity of sepsis, the professionals had to perform the amputation of all four limbs on the young woman: both legs above the knee and arms above the elbow.
The girl’s family argued that if doctors had treated her with antibiotics before her first discharge, the girl would not have been so sick and would have kept her limbs.
Deborah Nadela family lawyer, agrees with the victim’s mother in describing the injuries as “entirely preventable with proper treatment.”
Gumbel, for his part, assured that the little girl is “extraordinarily courageous” and that she is currently doing “very well” in school.
Source: Clarin
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