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NHS set for record payout after girl suffers brain damage (5 February 2014)
Date: 05/02/2014
A mix up at a children's hospital in London that left a 10-year-old girl with permanent brain damage has led to a record personal injury payout for medical negligence with the NHS facing a substantial £24 million bill.
Maisha Najeeb was an independent and active child before glue was accidentally injected into her brain at Great Ormand Street hospital in 2010. Maisha suffered catastrophic brain damage as a result and is now blind in one eye, uses a wheelchair due to limited movement and requires round the clock care.
She has now been paid an initial £2.8 million sum after a settlement was agreed at the high court in the capital on Tuesday. Maisha will also receive payments amounting to £383,000 on an annual basis until she is 19, with the figure rising to £423,000 thereafter.
Edwina Rawson, the family's solicitor said: “What is so heartbreaking about this case is that the injury was avoidable. If the syringes had been marked up so the hospital could see which contained glue and which contained dye, then Maisha would not have suffered what is an utterly devastating brain injury.”
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers Chief Executive, Deborah Evans added: “While this is possibly the largest agreed payment we have seen, the amount is dependent on life expectancy and will never replace the life she would have led.”
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