Heartbroken family of boy, 5, who died after being sent home from hospital say he should be 'still alive'

The heartbroken family of a little five-year-old boy, who died after being sent home from hospital, say he should be 'still alive.'Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died in November 2022 after getting tonsillitis, but now his loved ones have branded a review into the hospital who sent him home as being a “cover-up”.Yusuf's mum and uncle hit out at an independent report into the youngster's death, claiming it left out 13 pages of relevant evidence.Speaking to the Mirror, they said the report into the NHS hospital in Rotherham had not included crucial CCTV footage, WhatsApp messages, videos, pictures and witness testimonies that they said showed the seriousness of Yusuf’s condition was ignored.The pair are pleading with hospital bosses to learn lessons from the alleged failings in Yusuf's case as they want to make sure no other family has to go through what they went through.

They met Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting in Parliament where they criticised the Government for failing to get in touch with them despite requests and urged ministers to call for a new independent review into the case.Speaking about the report that last October ruled Yusuf’s care at Rotherham General Hospital was appropriate, his uncle Zaheer Ahmed said: “It’s not an independent report at all.

We believe as a family it’s a full cover-up, just to say we’ve ticked our boxes and we’ve done our investigation and there’s nothing we’ve done wrong.“Ultimately it’s a five-year-old child that’s died - and it’s our child that’s died - and we know what they’ve done and they know what they’ve done.

But they’re just trying to make out to the public that they’ve not done anything wrong and I don’t see why they’re doing that.