Little girl with one of the rarest genetic diseases in the world was wrongly diagnosed with cancer resulting in a number of failings by a Glasgow hospital.
The Kilmarnock mum, Samantha Pickering, said: “We were told that she was unwell because ‘it’s just the cancer’ but that wasn’t true. She didn’t even have cancer. When she got diagnosed with Pearson’s, we were told her illnesses were ‘just the Pearson’s’. Sign up to Glasgow Live's newsletter Get all the latest Glasgow news and headlines sent straight to your inbox twice a day by signing up to our free newsletter.The morning newsletter arrives every day before 9am and the evening newsletter, manually curated by the team, is sent between 4pm and 5pm, giving you a round up of the most important stories we've covered that day.Several parents whose children were treated on the ward have complained about infections as part of the wider inquiry.
“That’s when we started looking more closely at Emily’s medical records and discovered she had actually been treated for all sorts of infections.” Kenneth said: “I contacted the specialist and couldn’t believe it when they said they’d not heard of Emily and had nothing on their system for a referral.”
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