Boy Receives Compensation for Leg Amputation

The court has approved a compensation settlement of £900,000 for a boy whose leg had to be amputated shortly after he was born.

Leo Ison, now six, was just three weeks old when doctors at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester told his parents that he would have to have his leg amputated just below the knee because of a blood clot that had formed in his foot.

Leo’s parents contended that had the blood clot been identified sooner by staff at the hospital, he would only have had to have his toes amputated.

The compensation will enable the family to move to a one-storey home, and will pay for the professional treatment and care that Leo requires. As he also requires a further operation, it will mean that he will be able to have this privately instead of waiting for surgery through the NHS.