Baby boy dies two days after 'medics told mum to just give him Calpol' – Mirror.co.uk, Mirror.co.uk

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A baby boy died less than two days after hospital staff allegedly sent him home with a “virus” and told his mum to give him paracetamol.

Devastated parents Hannah Duncan and Jamie Riley now face the agony of laying Leon to rest at his funeral two days after Christmas.

The little boy’s gran Lorri Duncan, 48, claims Hannah was told to give him Calpol.

She said she doesn’t blame the staff but blames the ‘under pressure’NHS.

Hannah tookeight-month-oldLeon to Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, Fife, after he’d been poorly and wheezing for six weeks.

His death, less than 90 hours later, has been recorded as unexplained, “pending investigation”.

NHS Fife said it could not comment on individual cases but offered condolences to the family,the Daily Record reports.

Lorri said: “We don’t blame the nurses that were on that day. We blame the NHS.

“We don’t want to be angry about it, we just want to know why.”

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