Family demand answers after daughter dies of whooping cough

The family of a five-week-old baby girl who died of whooping cough are angry that a number of different doctors saw her yet failed to diagnose the disease.

Sarae Thompson-Haynes was taken to her GPs after developing a bad cough and then to an out-of-hours clinic when her condition deteriorated and finally to A&E at their local hospital. However, she continued to get worse and it was not until she was taken to another hospital when whooping cough was finally diagnosed, but by that time it was too late and she died at Great Ormond Hospital in London, a week after she was first taken to her doctors.

Her parents are now planning to lodge formal complaints with the GP surgery and Ipswich Hospital after they failed to link whooping cough to Sarae’s symptoms which included a runny nose, a temperature, a severe cough and vomiting. The condition, which is an infection of the lining of the airways, usually affects babies and small children but is only rarely fatal. However, the Health Protection Agency says that reported cases are already double what they were in 2011.

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