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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Claire Hayhurst

Five-year-old girl died just four days after routine tonsil surgery

Amber Milnes was just five when she died -

A five-year-old girl, described by her family as their “magical little princess”, died just four days after undergoing a tonsillectomy, an inquest has heard.

Amber Milnes, from St Just in Roseland, Cornwall, had the procedure at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro on 5 April 2023 to treat sleep apnoea.

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