‘Delays cost my baby girl her life’
AMY Belton believes her baby daughter died due to a lack of consultants at the weekend.
She went into hospital at 10.30pm on a Sunday and said she was told she would have to wait to be properly assessed.
The mother of three had suffered severe bleeding a few days earlier and her waters had broken. But she was left overnight and not given a scan until the following day.
This revealed her daughter Maddison had died and she was delivered stillborn on the Tuesday. Mrs Belton, 3 , from Hemlington, Middlesbrough, said: ‘The lack of staff definitely contributed. It was Sunday night, but I was expected to wait until Monday morning for the day staff to arrive.
‘I believe if they had acted sooner, my baby girl would be alive today.’
Mrs Belton and her husband Paul are taking legal action against the James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough.
Its spokesman said: ‘We continue to offer our condolences to the family but we cannot comment further at this stage.’