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Kieren Williams

Family of boy, 5, 'begged' for a hospital bed as probe launched into pneumonia death

A probe has been launched into the tragic death of a five-year-old boy who died from pneumonia after he was allegedly sent home from hospital due to a lack of beds.

Little Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died on November 23 when an infection spread to his lungs and caused multiple organ failure and several cardiac arrests.

His heartbroken family believe he could have lived had he been admitted to hospital when they took him to A&E nine days earlier.

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