Misdiagnosis of Child Patient leads to a £3 million settlement
21/10/2008
A GP has agreed a £3.3 million clinical negligence settlement for a nine-year-old girl who was left severely brain damaged when he failed to diagnose the early signs of meningitis.
Caitlin Lang of Barry in South Wales was taken by her mother to an out-of-hours surgery in January 2000 and was told that she had gastric flu. The GP, Dr Salih, told Miss Lang to give Caitlin Calpol.
Caitlin's symptoms deteriorated and two days later she was rushed to Llandough Hospital in the Vale of Glamorgan where she was diagnosed with pneumococcal meningitis. Miss Lang was warned that Caitlin could be brain damaged when she recovered but it was not until her daughter was one year old that she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
