ALM & LSM –v- Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust
The infant Claimant ALM (born 05.03.1994) was admitted to the Defendant Trust Hospital in Bath for a routine hypospadias repair on Tuesday 6th August 1996.
He was discharged on the evening of Wednesday 7th August 1996 around 7.00pm, informally. By Friday 9th August 1996, ALM developed urinary retention and renal failure, and had to be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit in the Bath hospital before being transferred to Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children. There he had to undergo debridement procedures due to extensive post-operative infection of the genitalia.
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