Mother of Child D describes feeling she was ‘losing mind’ as she pushed for investigations
has demanded an apology from the hospital for “dozens” of failings that allowed her daughter to be “preyed on” by the nurse.
The mother of Child D told the inquiry into the killings that her life “crumbled” when her two-day-old daughter died on the hospital’s neonatal unit in the early hours of 22 June 2015. Months after Child D’s death, the witness said, a review concluded she should have been provided with antibiotics earlier but that this might not have changed the outcome for her daughter. A postmortem examination had attributed the newborn’s death to acute pneumonia.
She accused Harvey of lying to the public when he claimed in a BBC News article in February 2017 that investigations had concluded into the increased rate of neonatal deaths and that families could now be fully informed. She said that even three months later she was “getting nothing, no answers”. “But to me if I wasn’t failed in the first place by the Countess in dozens of ways – and all against the protocol and guidelines they should have followed – my daughter wouldn’t have ended up in intensive care, I wouldn’t end up poorly and destroyed, and she wouldn’t end up in a place where someone is preying on babies.”
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