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It is a moment cherished by every father. As Gareth Burgess dressed for work, he heard his baby daughter Sophie utter the single word: Dadda.
Hours later, he would gaze into her panic-stricken eyes moments before she died after being given a massive overdose by bungling medics. I felt completely powerless, he said. That morning she had called me Dadda for the first time. Now she was looking at me with this frightened expression. She must have been in so much pain.
The tragedy unfolded after Sophie was rushed to hospital suffering from a fit. Devastatingly, Gareth and his wife Emma learned for the first time at an inquest last week that the 11-month-old should not even have been given the drug that killed her.
Parents warn St Peter s Hospital this isn t over as they seek answers over baby s death
Sophie Burgess died after being given a fatal overdose of an anti-seizure drug by staff at St Peter s Hospital
Main: Gareth and Emma Burgess outside Woking Coroner s Court | Inset: Sophie Burgess (Image: Main: Surrey Live/Darren Pepe | Inset: Gareth Burgess)
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Undated family handout photo of Sophie Burgess. Image: Family handout/PA Wire The death of an 11-month-old girl at a Chertsey hospital was caused by a lethal overdose of phenytoin and a a gross failure to provide basic medical care , a coroner has ruled. Sophie Burgess was given a lethal dose five times the required amount of the anti-seizure drug despite a nurse protesting that it was a breach of protocol. The baby was taken to St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey after a seizure, for which she was given the phenytoin. After what turned out to be a lethal dose, she vomited, went into cardiac arrest, and died three hours later.
The parents of an 11-month-old girl who died in hospital after she was let down by a gross failure to provide basic medical care and injected with five times the required dose of an anti-seizure drug have vowed to take legal action.
Sophie Burgess was given a lethal amount of phenytoin, despite the complaints of a nurse who said it was both unnecessary and against protocol.
The baby had initially been taken to St Peter s Hospital in Chertsey, Surrey on June 16 2016 following a seizure, for which she was given phenytoin.
But the child, described by her parents as a happy baby, always smiling , vomited, went into cardiac arrest, and died three hours later.