An eight-year-old girl died hours after being sent home from hospital and told to take over the counter pain relief.
Mia Glynn, from England, had visited the doctors twice in the space of just four hours and was showing signs of Group Strep A, which the UK's NHS describes as a 'common type of bacteria'.
When the little girl's parents, Soron, 39, and Katie, 37, first took their daughter to the GP she had been throwing up, had a severe headache as well as a sore throat.
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They were told to take Mia back to their home in Biddulph, Staffordshire.
When the parents brought their daughter in for the second visit, her symptoms had worsened and she was struggling to eat. Mia's heart rate had also risen, she'd become sleepy and wasn't weeing anyway near as much.
This time she was sent away with antibiotics because the hospital was 'full', and her mom and dad were allegedly told they would be waiting in the corridor.
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They asked whether Mia had contracted Group A Strep, which was prevalent at the time, but the medic continued to send the young girl home and advised her mom to make sure she had plenty of fluids as well as ibuprofen.
The doctor also noted that they shouldn't start administering the antibiotics until Mia went to bed.
That night the schoolgirl slept in her parents' bed but woke in the early hours of the morning agitated and disorientated, with rashes showing on her arms and legs and blue lips.
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Mia told her mom and dad how she was too hot but she was cold to touch, at which point they called the emergency services who rushed her to hospital - where she suffered a cardiac arrest 15 minutes later.
Doctors attempted to resuscitate the eight-year-old but around 20 minutes later she passed away on December 9, 2022, with the cause of death being sepsis caused by Group A Strep infection.
Speaking almost two years on from her daughter's death, Katie said: “Our world and hearts broke forever when our beautiful daughter was snatched away from us.
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"Mia had been taken to the doctors twice to be told her symptoms were viral. Around 15 hours later she died of sepsis.
“The unbelievable and unbearable pain we feel is unexplainable and unimaginable.
"Our beautiful healthy girl was the happiest, brightest, most loving and caring girl who smiled, danced, brought joy and love to everyone she met. She brought so much laughter and fun.”
Dad Soron added: "Seeing Mia in her final moments was awful.
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"We feel so blessed that she was our daughter but are completely heartbroken that Mia was taken from us so soon."
Katie and Soron are hoping to raise awareness of just how dangerous sepsis can be and have set up a charity called aiM - an anagram of Mia's name - in her memory.
Joe Yates