A tribunal has found the majority of allegations against a doctor accused of a cover-up over the death of nine-year-old Claire Roberts to have been proven
By Eve RosatoA tribunal has found the majority of allegations against a doctor accused of a cover-up over the death of a nine-year-old girl to have been proven.
The case then came to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, which rules on doctors' fitness to practice.Nine-year-old Claire Roberts died at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in 1996.In 2018 the Hyponatraemia Inquiry concluded Claire had died from an overdose of fluids and medication caused by negligent care and that there "was a cover up" and her death was not referred to the coroner immediately to "avoid scrutiny".
When the case came to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service , Dr Steen twice applied to be voluntarily removed from the medical register and was twice refused. Instead the tribunal continued and examined allegations that between October 1996 and May 2006 Dr Steen "knowingly and dishonestly carried out several actions to conceal the true circumstances" of Claire's death.Nine-year old Claire Roberts died in Belfast's Royal Hospital for Sick Children in 1996
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