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A young boy has been awarded millions of pounds in medical negligence compensation after he was left disabled due to problems whilst he was being born.
The unnamed eight-year-old child has developed cerebral palsy after complications and errors at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital during his birth in September 2002. He will need round-the-clock care for the remainder of his life.
The boy's parents decided to pursue legal proceedings against the NHS Trust in order to fund the financial outlay his care requires.
The specific amount of the settlement remains unknown, but BBC reports claim that Mr Justice David Steel told the High Court hearing that the award was in the victim's best interests.
"Money will never replace what we have lost," claimed the boy's parents, whose only wish "is that this doesn't happen to any other family and that the NHS learns from the mistakes that have been made".
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