Three-year-old lost legs due to hospital error

A three-year-old boy had both his legs and most of his fingers amputated after doctors wrongly diagnosed a life-threatening infection as common childhood condition tonsillitis.
Three-year-old lost legs due to hospital error

Reuben Harvey-Smith was taken to A&E at Ipswich Hospital after accidentally burning himself.

When his mother Lou took him back two days later with a fever and sore throat she was given antibiotics and told that her son had tonsillitis.

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