The grieving household of a five-year-old boy who died after being despatched dwelling from hospital have informed Sky News he would nonetheless be alive if they’d been listened to.
Zaheer Ahmed mentioned he “begged and begged” for his nephew Yusuf Mahmud Nazir to be admitted to hospital however was informed “there are no beds and not enough doctors”.
Yusuf first complained of a sore throat on 13 November. His dad and mom took him to their GP, who prescribed antibiotics.
The subsequent day, when their son’s well being didn’t enhance, they drove him to the emergency division of Rotherham General Hospital.
Mr Ahmed informed Sky News that they waited all evening to be seen by a health care provider and after Yusuf was examined he was despatched dwelling, despite the fact that the physician treating his nephew mentioned “it was the worst case of tonsillitis he had ever seen”.
His nephew was struggling to breathe, couldn’t swallow and was clearly in a distressed state, he mentioned.
At dwelling, after Yusuf’s situation deteriorated additional, his apprehensive dad and mom known as an ambulance and insisted he was taken to see the specialist paediatric group at Sheffield Children’s Hospital.
But it was too late to save lots of the younger boy’s life.
The an infection had unfold to his lungs and brought about a number of organ failure leading to a number of cardiac arrests.
Yusuf died of pneumonia on Monday.
‘We begged and begged for assist’
Mr Ahmed mentioned: “He stopped breathing, he stopped talking, when he was choking, he couldn’t breathe. He was struggling. And it’s led to his life being taken at five years old.
“If they might have handled him the place we wished him to be handled he could be right here with us now.
“He would have been here playing like he was. We’ve lost a beautiful child… it’s not his fault. We begged and begged and begged for help. We couldn’t get it. We just did not get the help we wanted, or we needed or we should have got.
“They saved saying to us, they saved saying to us, ‘We’ve obtained one physician. What would you like us to do? We’ve obtained no beds obtainable. What would you like us to do? We’ve obtained no house for him. What would you like us to do? Complain to the large individuals, do not complain to us. Complain to the large ones that solely gave us one physician’.”
Mr Ahmed mentioned he wished some good to come back from his nephew’s life.
He mentioned: “Even if it saves one child’s life, saves one parent going through what we’re going through, it saves one family to suffer what we’ve suffered. That will be enough for me.
“If Yusuf, who’s handed away, if he can save one little one, we’re completely happy. We don’t need anyone to undergo this. And we’re simply asking them to please hearken to individuals. Because when you do not hearken to individuals, that is what occurs.”
Dr Richard Jenkins, chief executive of the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, has offered his condolences to Yusuf’s family and told Sky News: “We have commenced a radical investigation into Yusuf’s care, which can embrace liaison with Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
“We have contacted the family and will continue to do so as part of the investigation.”
No youngsters’s intensive care beds south of Stoke
Children’s medical doctors name November “paediatric winter”. The season begins with a spike in winter respiratory viruses and as these circumstances subside, flu circumstances rise.
Senior paediatric consultants have informed Sky News about their issues of unsustainable stress on emergency youngsters’s companies.
One physician mentioned little one sufferers had been being transferred to his London hospital from Wales as a result of there have been no PICU (paediatric intensive care unit) beds obtainable wherever in England south of Stoke.
In response, an NHS spokesperson mentioned: “The NHS has seen a sharp rise in the number of children requiring invasive ventilation with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in recent weeks and as a result, pressure on paediatric intensive care units has been higher than usual.
“The NHS has tried and examined surge plans in place which incorporates mutual help between hospitals and paediatric specialists to make sure companies are in a position to present the best high quality care to all youngsters and we have now reminded native areas about this steering.”
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson mentioned: “All children deserve the highest levels of care and we are taking urgent action to ensure no families have to experience these kinds of tragedies.
“Last week we introduced as much as £8bn for well being and social care in 2024/25 and we’re giving an additional £500m to hurry up hospital discharge and liberate beds, guaranteeing individuals are solely in hospital for so long as they must be.
“The NHS is also creating the equivalent of 7,000 more beds this winter – enabling hospitals to treat patients sooner, including by using remote monitoring to provide care at home or in the community.”
Source: information.sky.com”