Surrey Mirror published Family of severely disabled boy given £2.5m payout by East...

A FAMILY have been given a £2.5 million payout by the trust that runs East Surrey Hospital after their son was left severely disabled following a traumatic birth.Crawley boy Thomas Hord, now seven, was starved of oxygen for 20 minutes when he was born at East Surrey in March 2009.He was eventually delivered by emergency caesarean and, as a result of the fraught birth, Thomas now has cerebral palsy and epilepsy which mean he will need round-the-clock care for the rest of his life.Despite...

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