New probe as baby dies at scandal-hit hospital SECOND CHILD TRAGEDY IN JUST A YEAR
GOGGLEBOX star Scarlett Moffatt’s love life seems to be in the pink again since she and on-off fella Luke Crodden rekindled their romance last month.
The Saturday Night Takeaway host, 26, and her hairdresser beau were spotted walking Bonnie, their pet chihuahua, near Scarlett’s new home this week.
Though Luke looked unsure about taking the lead, matching Scarlett’s pink cap and phone, in Camden, North London. They split earlier this year due to Scarlett’s workload after her I’m a Celeb win. BOSSES at a scandal-hit NHS hospital are investigating the second death of a child in a year.
Both tragedies are believed to involve use of anaesthetic equipment to make an airway into the lungs to help breathing.
The latest death, this summer, will spark new fears about the safety of the hospital’s accident and emergency department.
It is claimed that the child died after a tube, placed in the windpipe to help breathing, became displaced.
Last month the Sunday People revealed how baby Alba May died after being starved of oxygen in labour – and a midwife failed to alert a more senior colleague for 40 minutes. It was another 30 minutes before the baby girl was delivered.
We have launched an award- winning campaign exposing failures at North Middlesex hospital in Edmonton, North London, scene of 300 unexplained deaths.
Earlier this year bosses emptied a crowded A&E with the tannoy announcement: “Go home unless you are dying.”
It was also revealed a man died in an A&E cubicle after not being seen for four hours.
Mistakes
The latest child death was reported this month to the health trust board. Bosses say there was a “failure to diagnose a displaced ETT tube” and “failure to appropriately manage deterioration in an intubated patient”.
In the earlier tragedy, lack of oxygen caused such serious brain damage that Alba May died 62 hours after being born.
Mum Rochelle Pemberton, 34, of nearby Enfield, had waited three years to conceive with husband Wesley after two failed attempts at fertility treatment.
She said: “No new parents expect to leave the hospital without their baby and the pain you feel when you do is indescribable.
“While nothing will ever bring her back, we want to know that if mistakes have been made, then lessons have truly been learned by the trust and other parents will not have to suffer the same tragedy.”
A hospital spokesman said of the child deaths: “Both were fully investigated and appropriate actions, which were different in each case, were put in place. We always use incidents to learn lessons and following these cases we reviewed and refreshed training.”