UK court grants Indian-origin man compensation for baby’s death
26 Aug 2013 2:34 AM IST
An Indian-origin man in the UK has been granted a five-figure sum as compensation for the death of his newborn child after a four-year-long battle for justice. Kamaljeet Singh's baby boy died of a brain injury after staff failed to notice he'd already been born under bed sheets in October 2008 at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester.
An inquest into the death in April this year heard newborn Maninder Singh was already in a poor condition, but the delay in staff noticing he had been born and acting to resuscitate him meant he suffered further, avoidable injury. He suffered severe brain damage and died a few months later on 4 May, 2009. ‘This has been an extremely difficult four years for my family. We lost a much loved son under horrific circumstances,’ the 35-year-old father told
the Manchester Evening News.
An inquest into the death in April this year heard newborn Maninder Singh was already in a poor condition, but the delay in staff noticing he had been born and acting to resuscitate him meant he suffered further, avoidable injury. He suffered severe brain damage and died a few months later on 4 May, 2009. ‘This has been an extremely difficult four years for my family. We lost a much loved son under horrific circumstances,’ the 35-year-old father told
the Manchester Evening News.
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