Little boy needs legs and fingers amputated after doctors give wrong diagnosis

A three-year-old boy had both his legs and most of his fingers amputated after doctors in the UK wrongly diagnosed a life-threatening infection as common childhood condition tonsillitis.

Little boy needs legs and fingers amputated after doctors give wrong diagnosis

A three-year-old boy had both his legs and most of his fingers amputated after doctors in the UK wrongly diagnosed a life-threatening infection as common childhood condition tonsillitis.

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

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