Boy, 6, awarded record £37m in NHS compensation after ‘catastrophic’ brain damage

Boy, 6, awarded record £37m in NHS compensation after ‘catastrophic’ brain damage A six-year-old boy has been awarded a record £37 million from the NHS in compensation after contracting a virus in hospital which led to “catastrophic” brain damage.

The boy contracted the Herpes Simplex virus which later developed into a devastating brain fever following his birth at Watford General Hospital, London’s High Court heard.

The hospital did not detect the infection quickly enough, citing a two-day treatment delay which resulted in “catastrophic damage to his brain,” the boy’s barrister Henry Witcomb QC said. The Daily Telegraph