A 13-year-old girl died just one day after being diagnosed with cancer after doctors told her illness was just a chest infection.

13-year-old schoolgirl Tanisha Narraway-Baverstock lost weight after suffering from a cough.

After an X-Ray, Tanisha’s lungs showed an abnormal issue but doctors told her mother, Kelly Baverstock, to come back after four weeks.

However, they were told to come to the hospital immediately after realizing their mistake and Tanisha was then diagnosed with cancer.

But the 13-year-old, a footballer who had trials with Arsenal, died the next day while being treated.

Her mother Kelly Baverstock said at an inquest at Salisbury Coroner’s Court, Wiltshire: “Tanisha was making loud suffocating noises. As I was holding her hand she shouted ‘Mum, Mum, Mum!’”

“She then made this loud roar and the alarm went off and the nurses asked me to leave. They all rushed over to her and I could not believe what was going on.”

When the mother was told to leave, that’s when she knew she was dead.

She added: “That was when I saw her head flop and I knew she was dead. When you see that face you know there’s no coming back from that.”

The mother said the doctors dismissed her illness saying, it was just a chest infection and failed to diagnose her immediately.

She said: “I went into the theatre blinded, I did not think my child was going to die, I thought I was going to see her in intensive care after.”

The mother feels her daughter could have been saved if the doctors had not sent them back home.

However, Dr. Allen from Fisherton House GP practice in Salisbury who treated Tanisha, defended himself through a video link as he is currently in isolation at home due to the coronavirus.

 

 

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