A girl who had all four limbs amputated after she was wrongly discharged from hospital has had a £39 million settlement approved in the High Court.
Report informs via Mirror that lawyers for the child, who cannot be identified, said she was taken to Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey with "red flags for meningitis and sepsis", including a high temperature and heart rate, leg pain, and drowsiness after vomiting.
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.
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.
The young girl subsequently had above-knee amputations of both of her legs and above-elbow amputations of her arms.
Her family brought a claim against Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, arguing that if she had been treated urgently with antibiotics, she would not have been as ill and would have avoided the amputations.
And an agreement was reached after the trust admitted liability.