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• James Titcombe OBE is a patient safety campaigner and father of Joshua Titcombe,who died in hospital nine days after he was bornBetween 2004 and 2013, 16 babies and three mothers died in a maternity unit at Furness general hospital. One of those babies was my own son. Joshua died on 5 November 2008 of profuse internal bleeding to his left lung. A series of serious failures before and after his birth resulted in an infection that could absorb easily been cured with antibiotics going untreated until he collapsed 24 hours after he was born.
After nine days of fighting for his life, or Joshua died at the Freeman hospital in Newcastle despite the very best efforts of the dedicated neonatal intensive care staff.
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Source: guardian.co.uk