‘Hospital evaluate hid proof when my son, 5, died after medical doctors despatched him dwelling’

The household of a five-year-old boy who died after getting tonsillitis has branded a evaluate into the hospital who despatched him dwelling a “cover-up”.

The mum and uncle of Yusuf Mahmud Nazir, who died in November 2022, blasted an impartial report into the demise of their beloved son and nephew after it overlooked 13 pages of proof. They instructed the Mirror the report into the NHS hospital in Rotherham had not included essential CCTV footage, WhatsApp messages, movies, photos and witness testimonies that confirmed the seriousness of Yusuf’s situation was ignored.

The pair are pleading with hospital bosses to be taught classes from the alleged failings in Yusuf’s case as they wish to be certain no different household has to undergo what they went by way of. They met Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting in Parliament the place they criticised the Government for failing to get in contact with them regardless of requests and urged ministers to name for a brand new impartial evaluate into the case.

Speaking in regards to the report that final October dominated Yusuf’s care at Rotherham General Hospital was acceptable, his uncle Zaheer Ahmed instructed the Mirror: “It’s not an independent report at all. We believe as a family it’s a full cover-up, just to say we’ve ticked our boxes and we’ve done our investigation and there’s nothing we’ve done wrong.

“Ultimately it’s a five-year-old child that’s died – and it’s our child that’s died – and we know what they’ve done and they know what they’ve done. But they’re just trying to make out to the public that they’ve not done anything wrong and I don’t see why they’re doing that. If you’re not going to admit that you’ve done something wrong then how are you going to rectify it for the next child? Are they wanting to kill another five children before they decide: ‘Yes, let’s admit what we’ve done?’”

Yusuf, who had bronchial asthma, was taken to A&E at Rotherham General Hospital with respiratory difficulties eight days earlier than he died. After ready for greater than six hours earlier than being seen at round 5am, Mr Ahmed mentioned the physician noticed Yusuf for about 5 to eight minutes, put a stick in his mouth, mentioned he had tonsillitis and despatched him dwelling with oral antibiotics.

They mentioned this was regardless of the household overhearing the physician say “it was one of the worst cases of tonsillitis” he’d ever seen to different workers. Yusuf was struggling to breathe and was unable to drink, swallow or discuss, with him utilizing his palms to elucidate if he wanted something, so his mum needed to attempt to pressure the medication down the five-year-old’s throat, the household mentioned. As his situation worsened, three days later the household took Yusuf to Sheffield Children’s Hospital, the place he died 5 days in a while November 23 after creating pneumonia.

Speaking about Yusuf’s care in Rotherham, Mr Ahmed mentioned: “We felt as though he was just pushed away as they just didn’t have the time for it.” He mentioned Yusuf was smiling, consuming doughnuts and “running around and playing” the day he bought a temperature and tonsillitis.

“Yusuf was a very happy little child, he was very active, very quiet, very independent and he was just full of energy and he had a long, long life ahead of him,” he mentioned. “He was taken too early and it could have been prevented.”

Evidence they are saying was overlooked of the evaluate into Yusuf’s demise consists of the testimony of one other mum who had known as for pressing assist after seeing his state within the hospital ready room. Yusuf’s mum then took him to reception, the place a nurse instructed them to sit down again down and instructed the household “he’s just snoring”, Mr Ahmed mentioned.

He mentioned the witness has been supporting them after listening to Yusuf’s story on the information and “bursting into tears” after recognising him in a photograph. “She reached out to me on Facebook and said: ‘I’m here to help because I was the one who went to ask for help. I was shocked they just said: ‘No, we’re busy,’” she mentioned.

They additionally introduced proof to Mr Streeting of a marketing consultant at Sheffield Children’s Hospital who noticed Yusuf on the finish of his life who mentioned “earlier IV antibiotics may have helped prevent this from happening”.

Labour frontbencher Mr Streeting accused the report of “gaslighting” the household of their evaluate into the case. “What’s happened in this case hasn’t brought anything like the closure this family deserves but has actually ended up gaslighting them because they were witness to these events, they were by Yusuf’s side throughout and they know what they have seen in the report, in terms of the factual account of the events, does not match up with their experience,” he mentioned.

The Labour MP final yr requested then-Health Secretary Steve Barclay to fulfill with the household a number of occasions however Mr Ahmed mentioned they’ve heard “nothing” from the Government. Mr Streeting urged new Health Secretary Victoria Atkins to return in with a “fresh pair of eyes” and order a brand new impartial evaluate.

“There’s a fundamental thing here and that is that no child should be dying of tonsillitis,” he mentioned. “The report that has been published varies enormously with the report that the family were shown only days before final publication. It has led the family to feel like their voices have been lost, the experience that Yusuf and his family went through has been whitewashed and sanitised so what we now see in public is only a partial account of what really happened.”

Dr Jo Beahan, Medical Director at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, mentioned: “All of us were incredibly saddened by Yusuf’s tragic death. Our thoughts and sympathies continue to be with Yusuf’s family. We fully cooperated with the independent investigation into Yusuf’s death which was published in October, which found the medical care provided to Yusuf in Rotherham’s Urgent and Emergency Care Centre was appropriate, and there was nothing that could have been done differently that would have changed the tragic outcome.”

The Department of Health and Social Care was contacted for remark.