1. Five-year-old girl with asthma dies hours after GP refused to see her because she was “four minutes late”.
Girl, 5, dies hours after GP refused to see her ‘because she was 4 minutes late’ https://t.co/WF6DEME2zl
— Metro (@MetroUK) February 26, 2017
Five-year-old Ellie-May Clark died hours after she was due to see her local doctor after suffering an asthma attack at school in Wales.
Ellie-May’s mother, Shanice, said Dr Joanne Rowe declined to see her daughter because they were “four minutes late” to the appointment about 5pm, despite being aware the girl had suffered a dangerous asthma attack earlier in the day, The Metro reports.
Shanice found her daughter not breathing at 10:35pm the same night, and rushed her to hospital. Ellie-May died shortly afterwards.