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Damien Edgar

Banbridge mum on Strep A diagnosis for daughter - 'text message diagnosis from GPs needs to end'

The mum of a Co Down child who developed Strep A but was initially wrongly diagnosed in a text message from a GP, has called for an end to consultations and diagnoses over the phone for children.

Laura Rooney from Banbridge told Belfast Live in December about the horrendous scare she had with her five-year-old daughter Farrah, who started getting sick in September of last year.

Now that Farrah is starting to feel better, Laura wants to raise the prospect of text and phone consultations being done away with for sick children.

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