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Ala, a 22 year old woman who wears contact lenses, attended her
GP in September 2005 with a pain in her left eye, which was also
discharging pus. She had left her contact lenses in overnight. She
was prescribed antibiotic drops but her condition worsened, even
though she regularly attended Moorfields Eye Hospital.
The treating doctors diagnosed a bacterial infection and
continued the prescription of antibiotic drops and steroids.
Notwithstanding the antibiotics, the infection in Ala’s eye
worsened. She was in pain and her sight was failing. At the first
Moorfields appointment, the discharge from her eye tested positive
for an acanthamoebaacanthamoeba infection which is not sensitive to
antibiotics.
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This report was not acted upon. She should have been treated with
antiacanthamoeba therapy. She was not.
The wrong treatment continued for two
months.
Eventually a second microbiological test
(performed because no improvement was being made) identified the
correct cause of the infection and the correct treatment started.
Sadly, it was too late and Ala is now partially blind in her left
eye.
Paul McNeil was
instructed to take a claim on behalf of Ala. He obtained medical
evidence and asserted that her injuries were as a result of the
failure of medical staff at Moorfields to treat her appropriately
and in a timely manner. The case settled for £25,000 in May
2009.
For further information or if you have an
ophthalmology negligence
claim please call Paul McNeil
on
020 7861 4019 or email paul.mcneil@ffw.com
You can discuss your ophthalmology
negligence claim with any member of our medical negligence team on freephone
0800 358 3848, email personalinjury@ffw.com or
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