Parents' ordeal when tot went 'stiff as a board'
A PANIC-STRICKEN family say they were turned away from Hartlepool’s One Life medical centre after their baby stopped breathing.
Worried parents Annika Gray and Gareth Morgan took their nine-month-old son Harry to the urgent care centre after he suddenly went purple and “stiff as a board” at home.
Dad Gareth, 28, managed to revive him but they took him to the centre in Park Road at 9.20pm to be checked over by a doctor.
But they were stunned when a receptionist told them they needed to phone to make an appointment before they could see one.
Instead they took Harry 12 miles down the A19 to the A&E at the University Hospital of North Tees, in Stockton, where they were seen quickly.
Mum Annika, 26, said: “I was fuming. I don’t know how they can turn a baby away.”
Little Harry was asleep in his pushchair on Friday night when Annika and Gareth noticed something was wrong.
Annika, a carer, said: “We looked at him and he was purple. He wasn’t breathing.
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