A COUPLE who decided to sue Worcestershire Royal Hospital after being wrongly told their baby was dead have the sympathy of a mother who also had problems with her birth.

We reported in your Worcester News how mother-of-three Nadia Jones and her husband Steven are seeking compensation from the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust following the death of their son Harry.

The couple say midwives failed to spot problems with the pregnancy or conduct the necessary checks which might have saved him.

They also say they were also told he was still-born when he was still alive and fighting for his life.

He later died in his father’s arms hours after he was born following an emergency caesarean section at the hospital in Newtown Road, Worcester.

Mrs Jones, aged 37, of Kidderminster, said she did not believe she would ever get over the death of her son who died because of a lack of oxygen and septicaemia on September 15, 2004.

She had the sympathy of many Worcester News readers.

‘The Light’, of Worcester, wrote on your Worcester News website thisisworcester.co.uk: “This is an awful tragedy and new safeguards need to be put in place to stop this happening again.

“Such an avoidable tragedy. I had my child at Worcestershire Royal Hospital and cannot praise them enough for saving both my son’s and my life when I went for an emergency c-section.

“But looking back at it, I was left in labour too long. My waters broke on Friday night and I wasn’t in theatre until the Monday after doctors became concerned I wasn’t going to make it.

“I was lucky as both myself and my child survived but left any longer and it could have been a different story.

“Having read this article twice now I am horrified to imagine what this baby’s mother must be going through. My thoughts are with them.”

‘PaulMeUnder’, of Worcester, wrote: “I am happy for my tax to go towards supporting this couple. I cannot imagine what they must have been through and for it to be the result of incompetence must be a terrible thing to live with.”

‘Hotfuzz’, of Worcestershire, said: “The current NHS is a shambles and not even up to Third World standards.”