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Death of baby after UK hospital missed vitamin jab ‘beyond cruel’, parents say

Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge failed to give William Moris-Patto a routine vitamin K injection

The parents of a baby boy who died at seven weeks old after a hospital did not give him a routine injection have described the failure as “beyond cruel”.

William Moris-Patto was born in July 2020 at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge, where it was recorded in error that he had received a vitamin K injection – which is needed for blood clotting. The shot is routinely given to newborns to prevent a deficiency that can lead to bleeding.

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