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Tim Hanlon

Girl wins £39m settlement after hospital's meningitis error saw her lose four limbs

A girl who had all four limbs amputated after she was wrongly discharged from hospital has had a £39 million settlement approved in the High Court.

Lawyers for the child, who cannot be identified, said she was taken to Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey with "red flags for meningitis and sepsis", including a high temperature and heart rate, leg pain, and drowsiness after vomiting.

But she was discharged after being given paracetamol, her lawyers said, and when her parents took her back to A&E a few hours later with a rash and a fever, she was diagnosed with meningococcal sepsis.

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