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‘Docs missed my little girl’s broken leg’ claims mum
AN angry mum claims her toddler was discharged from South Tyneside District Hospital with a broken leg.
Toni Robinson said a consultant diagnosed her 23-month-old daughter, Halliemae Kerrigan, with merely “tissue damage”.
Miss Robinson also says she was advised to put extra pairs of socks on the child’s foot, to ease any soreness.
But after demanding a second opinion, doctors at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, diagnosed the toddler with a green line or surface fracture to the left leg.
And a fortnight after the toddler fell awkwardly against her toy kitchen, she still has a cast on her fractured leg.
Now borough hospital officials are investigating the complaint.
Miss Robinson, 23, of Glasgow Road, the Scotch Estate, Jarrow, said: “I was really annoyed, because my daughter could have been left with a limp.
“But the consultant at South Tyneside Hospital was adamant that it wasn’t a fracture, but just soft tissue damage.
“He said he was a professional, and that I didn’t need to get a second opinion.
“But my daughter was clearly in pain and I drove straight to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where the doctors diagnosed a fracture after taking an X-ray.
“They described a green line bone fracture as like a bamboo stick that has been bent over.”
Miss Robinson, who also has a three-year-old son, Dainjon, added: “I couldn’t understand when South Tyneside Hospital told me to put three pairs of socks on the bairn’s foot.
“Why do that, if nothing was wrong?”
The toddler is still wearing a cast on her left leg, but her mum hopes it will be removed at a clinic at the Gateshead hospital today.
Steve Jamieson, director of service reform and corporate services for South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Halliemae’s mother brought this matter to the attention of the trust on Thursday, and we are in the course of investigating her concerns and will be unable to comment until the investigation is complete.”
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