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A family have hit out after a five-year-old boy died a week after he was sent home from hospital.
Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died on November 23, 2022 - eight days after he was seen by doctors and sent home with antibiotics. Now, his family have rejected a report which found his care was appropriate and 'an admission was not clinically required'.
A report into Yusuf’s NHS care was published on Thursday. It came after his family complained that he should have been admitted and given intravenous antibiotics in Rotherham Hospital, South Yorkshire, on the night of November 15, YorkshireLive reports.
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Yusuf’s uncle, Zaheer Ahmed, insisted that they were told “there are no beds and not enough doctors”. He told the PA news agency his family questioned the independence of the report and said it is missing vital details about his nephew’s treatment.
The report published by NHS South Yorkshire concluded: “We consider that on the basis of Yusuf’s observations, presentation and diagnosis there was a reasonable expectation that the antibiotics prescribed were appropriate and an admission was not clinically required.”
It also concluded that “a bed would have been found” if an admission had been deemed necessary. It found that there were effectively 22 beds on the children’s assessment unit and the children’s ward and, between 1am and 5am on November 16, between 17 and 19 were occupied.
The report set out how Yusuf, who had asthma, was taken to the GP with a sore throat on November 15, as he had a sore throat and was feeling unwell, and he was prescribed antibiotics by an
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