Emergency services, including the air ambulance, were scrambled to Altrincham on Sunday afternoon following a horror crash which saw a baby taken to hospital.
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The dad of a tragic twin who died after a hospital trust failed to provide basic medical care for his meningitis is warning parents about sepsis to prevent them from going through the same tragedy.
Kingsley Olasupo was just ten-days-old when he died at the Royal Bolton Hospital on April 18. 2019, after he was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis and sepsis.
Healthcare staff failed to spot signs of infections and thought Kingsley's condition was due to being born premature. Coroner Peter Sigee concluded Kingsley died as a result of natural causes contributed to by neglect.
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Now, three-and-a-half years on from the tragedy, Kingsley’s mum and dad, Tunde Olasupo and Nicola Daley, have spoken about their heartache, setting up a youth centre to help struggling children and educating parents on the signs of sepsis to help them prevent them from going through the same agony.
Mr Olasupo, 31, told the Manchester Evening News : “As young parents ourselves, we were very clueless.
"Whatever we got told by the doctors we believed, the experience would have been better if we had a clue as to what was happening, maybe we would have changed the outcome. Everything happened so very quickly, from the start to the finish it was awful, they treated him like he wasn’t a human at all.
“We never dreamt of this moment, we never wanted to be an example of what can go wrong but now that it’s happened we don’t want his memory to go in vain.
“We want to educate other parents so they don’t go through the traumatic experience we went through, so they’re more clued up as to what’s going on, what they need to be watching out for, especially
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