A hospital the place a five-year-old died with Strep A is to launch a care overview after claims from her household that she was taken to A&E 3 times earlier than being admitted to intensive care.
Stella-Lilly McCorkindale grew to become the ninth little one to die from the an infection on 5 December after being admitted to the Royal Belfast Hospital.
Her household declare that they had taken Stella-Lilly to A&E on two consecutive days earlier than she was admitted to hospital on the third go to.
A spokesperson for the hospital informed Sky News that it was reviewing the care offered to Stella-Lilly.
“Every aspect of the care Stella-Lilly received is being carefully reviewed,” a Belfast Trust spokesperson mentioned.
“The death of a child is a heart-breaking event for family and friends and in such tragic circumstances, we give the family space to grieve.
“Hospital administration can be accessible to satisfy Stella-Lilly’s household at a time that fits them.”
The spokesperson added: “Our thoughts are with them at this incredibly sad time.”
It comes after Stella-Lilly’s father, Robert McCorkindale, informed the Mirror that his daughter ought to have been examined for the an infection earlier.
He informed the paper: “I think she would have had two extra days of fighting.
“They ought to have examined her for Strep A on the Monday [28 November], by the point they induced her Stella had given up.”
He said he had first taken his daughter to A&E on 28 November after she started feeling unwell with a cold and temperature.
Mr McCorkindale claims he was told Stella-Lilly was suffering from a viral infection and needed to drink Lucozade for rehydration.
He said he returned the next day, when doctors helped rehydrate Stella-Lilly, but did not carry out tests.
Mr McCorkindale said it was on their third trip to the hospital, on November 30, that doctors tested his daughter and found she had Strep A.
He told the Mirror that he believed her treatment was “disgraceful” up until that point, but praised doctors in the intensive care unit who he said had “bent over backwards” to try and save his daughter.
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Mr McCorkindale also paid tribute to his daughter in a social media post, writing: “We liked each minute collectively strolling this highway on our scooter rides or bikes rides, to procuring in Iceland, to dwelling beside the (greatest) neighbors that ever walked this earth.
“From every business we were in, to any bad bad booze place we passed, every time I looked up if someone didn’t tell me how cute we were then you had big smiles for us.”
Strep A is normally gentle and is handled simply with the antibiotic amoxicillin.
However, an invasive type of the micro organism often called iGAS has elevated this 12 months – notably in these beneath the age of 10.
Deaths from youngsters who’ve contracted Strep A have been reported in Hampshire, London, Buckinghamshire, Surrey and Penarth in Wales.
Illnesses attributable to the Group A strep micro organism embrace pores and skin an infection impetigo, scarlet fever and strep throat.
There has been a giant leap within the variety of scarlet fever circumstances.
There have been 861 circumstances reported through the week ending 27 November, based on the most recent UKHSA figures, in comparison with a mean of 186 for a similar timeframe in earlier years.
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The determine was barely down on the earlier week’s 901 circumstances, however the determine for the primary 47 weeks of 2022 is already 10 occasions larger than the identical interval for 2021.
The variety of circumstances of the extra critical invasive group A streptococcal illness (iGAS) in England and Wales within the week ending 27 November was eight.
Symptoms of scarlet fever embrace sore throat, headache and fever, together with a advantageous, pinkish or purple physique rash with a “sandpapery” really feel.
On darker pores and skin, the rash could be more durable to see however will nonetheless be “sandpapery”.
Source: information.sky.com”