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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Harry Taylor

Rotherham: inquiry after family says boy, 5, died after hospital turned him away

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Yusuf Ahmed’s uncle says doctors at Rotherham general hospital sent his nephew home because it had no available beds. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

A hospital trust in South Yorkshire has opened an investigation after the family of a five-year-old said he died after being turned away by doctors because there were no available beds.

Yusuf Ahmed died on Monday after a tonsil infection had spread to his lungs and caused multiple organ failure. The boy had been taken to Rotherham general hospital by his uncle Zaheer Ahmed on 14 November with complaints of a sore throat. He had been prescribed antibiotics the previous day by his GP, but his condition had not improved.

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