Ayr dad devastated after hospital gives new born overdose of paracetamol

A devastated Ayr dad admits his life has been turned upside down after a Glasgow hospital gave his newborn son an overdose of painkillers.

Ahad Ul Hassan and partner Hira Mansoor insist their life has been put on hold while they pray for eight-week-old Zohan to recover from being administered 10 times more paracetamol than he should have been at the Royal Hospital for Children.

The family have been told the youngster may have irreversible brain damage after he was administered with 200mg of paracetamol instead of the required 20mg.

And distraught Ahad doesn’t know where to turn for help.

He said: “We don’t know what to do, we are just heartbroken.

“We are just praying and having patience and praying to god he survives.

“They have turned our life upside down.”

Zohan - who was born seven weeks premature on January 24 - had initially started showing signs of a hernia at six-weeks-old which doctors first operated on at the beginning of March.

His stomach began to swell a week later, and he was rushed to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock where medics transferred him via ambulance to the Royal Hospital for Children on March 16th.

An operation was arranged for Tuesday, March 18th, and it was then the error was made.

“An NHS consultant told us it was a young doctor who made this horrible mistake,” Ahad continued.

“But they say they are doing an internal investigation, but right now, we don’t know what is going to happen to him (Zohan), which is just heartbreaking.”

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have taken full responsibility for what has happened.

Dr Claire Harrow, NHSGGC’s Deputy Medical Director for Acute Services, said: "We would like to sincerely apologise to the family of baby Zohan Ul Hassan.

“We are continuing to deliver the best possible care for Zohan, and we continue to offer support to his family at this distressing time.

“We have launched a full investigation into this incident and his family will be fully informed of and involved in this process as it continues.”

Ahad finished: “I have lost my trust in the NHS, anybody who is touching my baby from now on, I want to see their faces before they do treatment.

“So, any consultant or any nurse who is looking after him following the incident, I am speaking to them first.”

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