A pregnant teenager’s baby died after she was sent home from hospital with life-threatening pre-eclampsia. Four weeks after medics ignored early signs of the condition, Sarah Cowan’s baby boy was dead and she was fighting for her life with septicaemia.The distraught mum, then just 19, sought answers but it took five years before a settlement of £12,000 compensation was paid to her.
Sarah is satisfied she has answers to what went wrong but bitterly disappointed at the lack of care received at Crosshouse Hospital, near Kilmarnock.
Sarah, now 25, from Ayr, said: “I am too scared to get pregnant in case the same thing happens again and I have to go back to that hospital.