Parents of boy who died after being sent home with Calpol win payout and hospital apology
Parents of boy who died after being sent home with Calpol win payout and hospital apology
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Heartbroken parents have been awarded a compensation payout after their four-year-old son died of sepsis following doctors telling them to “give him Calpol”. The parents of Daniel Klosi pleaded with medics to give him blood tests as they were concerned he was seriously ill, but the child was repeatedly sent away from hospital.
Distraught mum and dad Lindita Alushi, 44, and Kastriot Klosi, 51, took Daniel to The Royal Free Hospital in Camden, north London, four times during the week before his death. Two of these trips to hospital saw them sent home with instructions to give him Calpol and Ibuprofen. Daniel was only admitted to a children's emergency department after his parents visited hospital twice in one day, on April 1, 2023, after waiting for four hours in A&E, an inquest heard.
By that time though the tot was visibly deteriorating - and died only a few hours later in the early hours of the following morning. His grief-stricken parents, who live in Kentish Town in London, instructed medical negligence lawyers Irwin Mitchell to look into their son’s death.
Investigators found that during Daniel’s third hospital visit, staff did not read his medical records or obtain a full history from his parents. An inquest also heard that medics did not order blood tests or administer life-saving intravenous antibiotics.
Daniel, who had autism, attended hospital with “atypical” features of sepsis, Coroner Mary Hassell said. She criticised medical staff, adding they needed to “pay even more attention than usual” to parents and their concerns regarding their child’s health.
