A father whose teenage daughter died of tuberculosis, despite seeing a GP 23 times and seeking help at four hospitals, has told how her condition got so bad doctors thought she had cancer.
Alina Sarag's TB went undiagnosed for almost five months.
She passed away at Birmingham Children's Hospital in January 2011 after suffering a cardiac arrest.
An inquest into Alina's death has now recorded a verdict of death by natural causes.
Her father Sultan said: "They thought she'd got cancer in her body because it spread so much it was like her organs, her kidneys shut down, her lung exploded and that's when they gave her a quadruple dose of medicine for TB. That's what I was told then, but it was too late then."
The negligent GP should be named and shamed along with the hospital in question.
TB, which is a well known and easy to diagnose disease our doctors need more qualification if you ask me, UK is not the third world country??
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