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‘They said they had no space’: Family says boy, 5, died after he was sent home from hospital

Zaheer Ahmed said he “begged and begged” for his nephew Yusuf to be admitted to hospital but was told “there are no beds and not enough doctors”.

The grieving family of a five-year-old boy who died after being sent home from hospital have told Sky News he would still be alive if they had been listened to.

Zaheer Ahmed said he “begged and begged” for his nephew Yusuf Mahmud Nazir to be admitted to hospital but was told “there are no beds and not enough doctors”.

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Yusuf first complained of a sore throat on 13 November. His parents took him to their GP, who prescribed antibiotics.

'They said they had no space': Family says boy, 5, died after he was sent home from hospital
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The next day, when their son’s health did not improve, they drove him to the emergency department of Rotherham General Hospital.

Mr Ahmed told Sky News that they waited all night to be seen by a doctor and after Yusuf was examined he was sent home, even though the doctor treating his nephew said “it was the worst case of tonsillitis he had ever seen”.

His nephew was struggling to breathe, could not swallow and was clearly in a distressed state, he said.

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At home, after Yusuf’s condition deteriorated further, his worried parents called an ambulance and insisted he was taken to see the specialist paediatric team at Sheffield Children’s Hospital.

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