UK: Young girl wins $48M payout after having all her limbs amputated - Insider

• A British miss has won a colony for £39m ($48.3 m) aft having each her limbs amputated. 
• Her household said she was wrongfully discharged from a infirmary and aboriginal developed sepsis.
• The family's lawyer described her injuries and disabilities arsenic "completely avoidable with due care."

A British miss has won a colony of £39 cardinal ($48.3m) aft having each her limbs amputated pursuing a wrongful discharge from a hospital. 

Lawyers for the unnamed miss said that she was taken to Frimley Park Hospital successful Surrey, southeast England, with precocious fever, drowsiness and vomiting, reported Metro, described arsenic "red flags for meningitis and sepsis," according to the BBC News, but she was sent distant with paracetamol. 

Her parents returned to the infirmary erstwhile her information worsened, wherever she was diagnosed with meningococcal sepsis and aboriginal endured multi-organ failure.

The severity of her sepsis aboriginal led to her needing her quadruple limb amputations, said Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC, representing the family, per the BBC. The miss had above-knee amputations of some legs, and above-elbow amputations of her arms, said the BBC.

Her household argued that if she was instantly treated with antibiotics, past she would not person been truthful sick and could person saved her limbs. 

The infirmary spot admitted liability astatine the High Court successful London connected Friday, reported Metro.

Gumbel described the miss arsenic "extraordinarily brave" and said she is "managing successful schoolhouse to bash precise good academically," per the BBC.

According to the BBC, the family's lawyer Deborah Nadel described her injuries and disabilities arsenic "completely avoidable with due care."

The NHS spot accepted liability for the young girl's condition, with Bradley Martin KC, who represented the trust, saying, "there is nary magnitude of wealth that tin genuinely compensate for her injuries.

The miss volition person portion of the colony successful a lump sum, and the remainder volition beryllium paid annually for the remainder of her life. 

A spokesperson for the NHS spot told the BBC: "We are precise atrocious for the claimant's injuries, and we recognize nary magnitude of wealth tin afloat compensate for them.

"However, we are pleased that the colony has been approved, and we anticipation the agreed damages volition guarantee that the claimant tin unrecorded arsenic independently arsenic imaginable successful the future."