Stella-Lily MacCorkindale, a five-year-old girl, died on December 1st of Streptococcus A in Belfast, Ireland. In the UK, the medical community is concerned as Stella is the ninth child to die in recent weeks from a bacterial infection, British newspaper The Mirror reports.
Stella’s father Robert MacCorkindale says that he took his daughter to the hospital three times before a tragic outcome. The child developed symptoms on November 26, and was taken to the emergency room on November 28, 29 and 30. If at first the doctors suspected simple dehydration, then as the disease progressed, they realized that the situation was more alarming.
On November 30, as symptoms worsened, the child told his father that he felt he was dying. Stella died at dawn the next day.
Robert thanked the doctors for their dedication to his daughter, but regrets that proper precautions were not taken during the girl’s first visit to the hospital.
“The death of a child is a heartbreaking event for family and friends, and in such tragic circumstances, we give the family the opportunity to grieve,” a hospital spokesman said after Stella’s death.
Streptococcus A is a bacterial infection that causes sore throat and skin infections and is usually treated with antibiotics. Invasive disease occurs when bacteria overwhelm the body’s immune defenses.
Author: morning Post
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