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Turned Away Meningitis Victim Wins £3.2m from Public Hospital
Mark Thomas, now 20, has the mind of a child and virtually no short-term memory. He used to be a keen footballer, but now goes to fixtures and forgets the score within minutes of a match finishing.
He had suffered a series of ear infections which refused to clear up in the six weeks before contracting meningitis in February 2002.
He saw his GP several times but by February 9 his condition deteriorated so much that his parents took him to Walsall Manor Hospital for a blood test.
The schoolboy had the classic signs of meningitis, including a stiff neck, aversion to bright lights and extreme lethargy, which should have rung alarm bells for doctors.
But he was sent home and the blood test results - which revealed the infection had spread to his brain - were not passed on to his parents.
Five days later his illness worsened and his desperate parents took him back to A&E only to be told by a nurse his condition was not sufficiently serious and they were 'using emergency A&E services inappropriately.'
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