Daily Stormer The Most Censored Publication in History
Daily Mail
February 4, 2014
A devastated mother has told how her son died aged 12 days old after doctors cancelled a life-saving heart operation five times in a week.
Danielle Gatehouse, 23, said staff at the scandal-hit Bristol Children’s Hospital deemed her son Harley Pascoe ‘too healthy’ for an immediate operation.
Miss Gatehouse and partner Lee Pascoe, from Fraddon in Cornwall, are now considering legal action over the treatment Harley, who was born with half a heart, received on ward 32 of the hospital.
Miss Gatehouse was induced at 38 weeks after Harley’s heart condition was picked up by scans. The child was born at Bristol’s St Michael’s Hospital in September weighing 7lb 7oz.
The baby was then transferred to Bristol Children’s Hospital and Miss Gatehouse said she was told Harley would need three operations wuith the aim of inserting a shunt into his heart to improve blood flow.
She was told if the operations were successful, he would have an 80 per cent chance of living a normal life, The Sunday People reported.
On the Monday they arrived at ward 32, the couple were told the proceedure had been postponed for three days. Miss Gatehouse said the operation was postponed again on the Wednesday until Friday, and on the Thursday she was told it was nothing to worry about.
When Friday came, the operation was put back for a third time. Then on Sunday, September 29, the procedure was postponed for a fourth time.
All the time, Miss Gatehouse said her baby was deteriorating in front of her.
It was reported that the reasons for the postponements given to the parents included that he was ‘too healthy and not an emergency’ and there was a bed shortage.
