A Lanarkshire mum has spoken out about her experience after her six-year-old daughter was left fighting for her life after catching Strep A.
Emma Clark's daughter, Ellie, began experiencing a sore throat and vomiting at the end of October and was given a telephone consultation by her local doctor's surgery Oak Lodge Medical Practice.
They youngster's GP failed to spot symptoms twice, with Emma being told the first time that her daughter had a viral infection which would clear up on its own but on November 3, the youngster's temperature spiked to 40.3 degrees. She was hallucinating, vomiting blood and had developed a rash around her mouth but was sent home from an emergency GP visit with a gastroenteritis diagnosis and Dioralyte.
