Louisa Ravouvou awarded £5m for Hospital Blunder

Louisa Ravouvou awarded £5m for Hospital BlunderSubmitted by Neeraj Shahane on Sat, 01/18/2014 - 08:23 

The High Court has awarded a 10-year-old girl with £5m as care compensation after two hospital blunders left her disabled. The court said the hospital was at fault for not being able to recognize that the girl suffered bleeding in the brain while she was in the womb of her mother.
The hospital staff did not provide Louisa Ravouvou with a blood transfusion shortly after she was born in 2003. As a result, she suffered a brain damage, which is also termed as ‘catastrophic brain damage’.
The breaches of duty were accepted by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a reason for the girl’s condition.
The family's solicitor Sue Jarvis said the Louisa's mother was admitted to the John Radcliffe Hospital for a week in October 2003. After the girl suffered bleeding in the brain, she was transferred to the Great Western Hospital because of non availability of no special care beds at the unit in Oxford.

Staff at Great Western was told that the girl was likely to be anaemic. Great Western was not able to make appropriate arrangements to provide Louisa with a blood transfusion within half an hour of delivery. This led her to catastrophic brain damage.