Makenna-Rose Thackray waited with her family for six hours to see a doctor shortly before she died.
A four-year-old girl died within days of leaving A&E after a fruitless six-hour wait to be seen by a doctor, an inquest has heard.
In a statement read out in court, her father, Paul Thackray, said he believed there had been "missed opportunities" to save his daughter's life. The disease causes a high fever and sore throat and can be dangerous in young children if left untreated.pharmacists across the country reporting a widespread shortage of penicillin around that timeIn her statement, Miss Ledger said she went to four separate pharmacies in an effort to get penicillin without success and so she was prescribed a week's worth of alternative antibiotics for her daughter instead.
Miss Ledger described her daughter as "poorly, lethargic and burning up" and said she got "hotter" as their wait in A&E continued.In her statement, she added: "At around 23:30 GMT, we had been in hospital for over four hours and Makenna-Rose was still burning up and was exhausted. I asked the nurse how much longer the wait was, and she just apologised and said that there were other patients that needed to be seen before her.
Miss Ledger said the family took Makenna-Rose to a GP appointment the following day, but the doctor diagnosed them collectively with flu and said he did not want to give her antibiotics.
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