A simple mix-up in an operating theatre that left a "happy, active"
10-year-old girl with catastrophic brain damage has led to the National Helath Services(NHS) facing a £24m payout – the largest in a case of medical negligence.
Maisha
Najeeb was keen on dancing and hoped to become a doctor when glue was
accidentally injected into her brain during surgery at Great Ormond
Street children's hospital in London in June 2010.
The accident
occurred when a syringe containing glue was mistaken for one containing
dye. Maisha, who is now 13, suffered what her lawyers describe as
"catastrophic and permanent brain damage". She is in a wheelchair, can
barely move, is blind in one eye, needs round the clock care and suffers
from painful spasms in her legs.
In a settlement agreed at the
high court in London, she will receive an initial £2.8m plus annual
payments of £383,000 until she is 19. That will then rise to £423,000 a
year until she dies.
If she lives until she is 64, as an expert
hired by her family said they expected, then the NHS would have to
eventually pay total damages of almost £24.2m. The trust, admitted liability for Maisha's injuries.
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