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Medical negligence news
18/03/2008
Claim begun over serious birth injury
A family has begun a compensation claim for medical negligence after their infant son's death has been attributed to "neglect" in the coroner's report.
The child had a difficult birth, in which the mother's uterus was ruptured following the administration of an overdose of a birth-inducing drug. This led the oxygen supply to the baby to be cut off, and he was born by caesarean section with brain damage and cerebral palsy due to a delay in recognising that his oxygen supply had been interrupted.
Doctors feared the child would grow up deaf, blind and quadriplegic, but he died from pneumonia less than a year later. The coroner gave a verdict of death from natural causes, to which neglect contributed. His parents appointed a firm of personal injury solicitors in Manchester to handle a birth injury compensation claim for this instance of alleged medical negligence.
The hospital has changed its procedures after reviewing this case.
