Teenager wins £4million compensation from Rochford Hospital (From Echo)

Teenager wins £4million compensation from Rochford Hospital

1:01pm Wednesday 1st September 2010 in

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A TEENAGER has won a £4million payout from Rochford Hospital.

The girl was left with quadriplegic cerebral palsy and confined to a wheelchair following difficulties with her birth at the hospital in September 1992.

At a High Court hearing the girl, through her mother, sued Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust -who today agreed to a settlement of her case valued at around £4m.

The 17-year-old, who cannot be identified, will need a lifetime of care and assistance after her brain was starved of oxygen in the minutes before her traumatic birth.