Sky News reports that Fabio Alves-Nunes suffered multiple organ failure after a severe reaction to the illness.

The independent report into his death said Fabio died as the result of ‘significant failings’ by East Surrey Hospital in Redhill.

His parents Anna and Ricardo Alva-Nunes telephoned their GP three times requesting an urgent home visit from a doctor, only to be told by a receptionist to give their son a cold bath and some Calpol.

On the February 14, 2008, Mr Alva-Nunes rushed Fabio to A&E for a second time, where doctors spent 20 to 30 minutes with him, before sending him home with painkillers and antibiotics. Fabio later lost consciousness at home and paramedics attended. After three hours they decided to take him to hospital – but it was a further 24 hours before Fabio was admitted to the Evelina Children's Hospital in south London, where he later died.

Mr Alva-Nunes told the Daily Mirror newspaper that his son was hallucinating – ‘and so wiped out from the pain and dehydration he could not even lift his own head. We knew something was terribly wrong. So why didn't two doctors and three nurses?’

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust – which runs East Surrey Hospital in Redhill – said it accepted there were ‘systematic failings’, but denies they contributed to the child’s death.

Mr and Mrs Alves-Nunes are reported as saying they would like someone made accountable for their son’s death.

© 5r1 Limited, 2009

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