A top coroner has today concluded that there were no failures in the care of a little boy who died aged just 18 months old. Henry Kenworthy, who suffered from Noonan Syndrome and heart condition hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, was taken to hospital by his worried parents with a chest infection - and died two days later.
The 'joyful and cheeky' little boy caught enterovirus and was admitted to hospital on March 3 2019 after he began struggling with breathing. Consultant paediatricians gave a working diagnosis of bronchiolitis and he remained in hospital, where his condition then quickly 'spiralled'.
An inquest last Wednesday (June 28) heard how his worsening condition could've been raised sooner with senior doctors by paediatric nurses and that the cardiac arrest he subsequently suffered may have even been avoidable. However, at the inquest conclusion on July 8, Area Coroner Zak Golombek said that there were no failures in his care and that Henry died of "naturally occurring illnesses that reached their natural end."
