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A 12-year-old girl died by suicide after doctors failed to test for treatable brain inflammation, an inquest found.
A 12-year-old girl, Mia Lucas, died by suicide in January 2024 at Sheffield’s Becton Centre after being admitted to Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre for a psychotic episode.
An inquest found that doctors failed to perform a lumbar puncture or other tests that could have detected autoimmune encephalitis, a rare brain inflammation causing acute psychosis, which was only confirmed post-mortem.
The jury concluded the failure to test “possibly contributed” to her death and that the Becton Centre failed to adequately manage her self-harm risk.
Mia’s mother, Chloe Hayes, said her daughter was a healthy, joyful child who never wanted to die and was let down by the medical system at every stage.
The NHS trusts involved apologized, acknowledging lapses in care.
Una niña de 12 años murió por suicidio después de que los médicos no pudieran hacer pruebas para detectar una inflamación cerebral tratable, según una investigación.