A mother from County Down will receive undisclosed damages over alleged failures in the hospital treatment and care given to her daughter, who died in 2017
A mother from County Down will receive "substantial" undisclosed damages over alleged hospital treatment failures and care given to her daughter.
The claims against the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust and the Northern Ireland Hospice were resolved on a confidential basis at Belfast's High Court on Thursday.Baby Jessica was diagnosed with trisomy 13 shortly after her birth in December 2016.
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