Coroner condemns chickenpox blunder
A CORONER yesterday condemned bungling doctors who sent a seriously ill baby home to die.
One-year-old Lewis Mullins was turned away from hospital three times despite a severe bout of chickenpox.
He died from pneumonia which was likely to have been caused by the disease he caught from his four-year-old sister Lacey, an inquest in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was told.
Coroner Nicola Mundy said Lewis would have been saved had doctors shown more care.
She said: “Had appropriate treatment been given on each of those three occasions it is likely Lewis would have survived.
“A number of nurses and doctors were involved in Lewis’s care over a short period but nobody looked at the entire picture. Ultimately this led to his death.”
Last night his heartbroken mother Jodie Conlay, 28, said: “Hearing that Lewis’s life could have been saved was soul- destroying.
I hope doctors will take more notice of parents’ concerns in future
“I hope doctors will take more notice of parents’ concerns in future.”