A six-year-old girl has died after a needle accidentally hit her artery during a ‘minor’ procedure.
Amelia Ridout, ‘Millie’, suffered ‘massive, catastrophic’ internal bleeding and died in June 2022 after she went to an NHS hospital with a suspected blood condition.
An inquest heard that even though a paediatric doctor saw a warning sign that something had gone wrong during the biopsy, a consultant haematologist said nothing raised their concerns.
The doctor was told to finish the procedure, and shortly after it concluded Amelia went into cardiac arrest.
The little girl died during emergency surgery to fix the bleed.
Her father Matthew Ridout said he had been left suicidal after the fatal error and did the three peaks challenge on his daughter’s seventh birthday in May to be ‘close’ to her
He said: ‘I have been suicidal since her passing, wanting to be with beautiful/loving and caring daughter Amelia.
‘All I want to do is be as close to Amelia on her day, with being as high as I can in different locations seemed to be the only solution.’
The grieving father added Millie was born prematurely and weighed just two pounds and four ounces.She spent her first six weeks in the Luton and Dunstable Hospitals NIC unit before being released home on Fathers day – ‘the best gift ever!’
