Yusuf’s family has called for a full inquest and insisted that the NHS learn lessons from his death.<\/p>\n
His mother, Soniya Ahmed, said: “Every night when I close my eyes I hear Yusuf’s helpless voice in my ears saying, ‘Mummy, I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, I really can’t’.<\/p>\n
“And the image of him being handed over to me after his life ended, as though someone has torn my heart out and placed it in my hands.”<\/p>\n
She said her son was “left to die right beside me”. <\/p>\n
“He was crying in pain yet he received no pain relief.<\/p>\n
“They say a mother’s instinct is a powerful thing, it can neither be ignored nor explained, yet my concerns were ignored each and every time.”<\/p>\n
Ms Ahmed described the failings in his care as “truly shocking”, citing 13 opportunities the report outlined to escalate her son’s care.<\/p>\n
“Yusuf deserved better, every child does. I will never stop speaking his name. I will never stop fighting for him. We demand accountability, we demand change,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yusuf’s family has called for a full inquest and insisted that the NHS learn lessons from his death.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-35979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}