Disabled child awarded substantial medical compensation

An eight-year-old boy's family have been awarded more than £6million in compensation after he was born with severe health issues in 2002.

According to the Times, the child's parents, Earnie and Janet Kramer, received the sum from the Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals Trust - which runs two medical institutions and offers treatment to some 500,000 people in North London - after their son Theo was born with learning difficulties and quadriplegia.

Theo's difficulties resulted after a student nurse was reportedly left in charge of the birth procedure at the Edgware Birth Centre and subsequently failed to recognise a heart rate deficiency in the child during his delivery.  Additional delays in transferring Theo's mother to Barnet General Hospital are also believed to have lead to his condition.

Theo now cannot walk or sit down on his own and requires care, as well as only being able to talk through a speech-generating device.

Lawyers for parents Earnie and Janet Kramer argued as she was a first-time mother at the age of 38, she should never have been sent to the unit, whose protocol exclude any first-time mums over 35.

To compensate and assist with Theo's ongoing care and assistance this week the Kramers were awarded £6.4million in the form of an initial lump sum followed by index-linked instalments.

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