A mum whose baby died at five weeks old has spoken out after a damning report exposed the huge disparities in maternity care between Black and white women in the UK.
Lois Carew Doyley's second child, her daughter Markeshia, died with strep B infection at just five weeks old. One baby a week dies of Group B strep in the UK with Black infants dying of the infection more frequently than white children.
Yet Lois says her family were not told about the risk and subsequently lost Markeshia. Lois said that despite discovering she was a Strep B carrier, when she became pregnant again she did not receive antibiotics to reduce any risk when she was in hospital.
