{"id":379296,"date":"2018-10-02T00:43:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T23:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uks-nhs-pays-20mn-to-settle-negligence-row\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T00:43:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T23:43:12","slug":"presstv-uks-nhs-pays-20mn-to-settle-negligence-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uks-nhs-pays-20mn-to-settle-negligence-row\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK\u2019s NHS pays \u00a320mn to settle negligence row"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Britain\u2019s National Health Service (NHS) has been ordered to pay a historic sum of \u00a320 million to a young woman who has suffered for more than 18 years as a result of medical negligence which took place when she was a baby.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>British media reported on Monday that the unidentified teenager would receive a lump sum of \u00a32.1 million and annual payments of \u00a3203,000 for the rest of her life as a compensation for negligence in the University hospital of Wales in Cardiff in February 2000 when she was starved of oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>The oxygen starvation resulted in catastrophic brain injuries in the baby while she also developed complications at five months old when doctors tried to correct a malformed esophagus in an operation.<\/p>\n<p>A judge ruled last month\u00a0that doctors at the NHS facility had failed to adequately ventilate the baby before and after her respiratory arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Robert Harrison of the high court in the Welsh capital announced the financial&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/01\/575762\/Britain-NHS-medical-negligence-compensation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s National Health Service (NHS) has been ordered to pay a historic sum of \u00a320 million to a young woman who has suffered for more than 18 years as a result of medical negligence which took place when she was a baby. British media reported on Monday that the unidentified teenager would receive a lump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}