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Doctors 'ignored' paramedic's warning that toddler had sepsis before he died

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A heartbroken mum has told how her two year-old son died after doctors overlooked warnings of sepsis blood poisoning flagged up by paramedics.

Hospital chiefs admitted two-year-old Arlo Bennett, could have survived if he had been treated for sepsis earlier at Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham.

Little Arlo was rushed to A&E in February after he suffered a seizure and was sick. Horrified mum Leanne Amyes, 28, realised he had stopped breathing and called for an ambulance.

Despite paramedics flagging the tell-tale signs of sepsis - including a fever and a high heart rate - doctors at the hospital did not believe them.

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