Yusuf Mahmud Nazir, five, was not admitted to hospital despite his uncle 'begging' for help.
Five-year-old Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died in Sheffield's Children Hospital
He said he was told the children's ward had "not got the doctors" and "not got the beds". Yusuf died on Monday.Zaheer Ahmed said Yusuf fell ill with a sore throat on 13 November. The following day he went to his GP and was prescribed antibiotics.After waiting for hours Yusuf was seen by a doctor who, according to Mr Ahmed, told him that the child had "the worse case of tonsillitis he had ever seen".
Two days later, Yusuf was unable to speak, eat or drink so was taken by ambulance to Sheffield Children's Hospital. "If he had got IV antibiotics, he would have been here. He would have be playing with us now, if he got that when I begged them." Dr Richard Jenkins, chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, offered his "sincere condolences to Yusuf's family".
"We, like other district general hospitals in the South Yorkshire region, do not provide paediatric intensive care beds.
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