Family of Hawaii girl who died from strep granted $850,000

[TexasTowelie]

HILO (AP) — The family of a Big Island girl who died in 2012 is receiving $850,000 to settle a federal medical malpractice lawsuit it filed.

Rienda Supu, 8, died after her parents sought treatment multiple times for a cut on her leg, which eventually became infected with staph and strep bacteria.

An autopsy showed she developed acute rheumatic carditis, which can come from a strep infection.

Richard Turbin, the attorney representing Supu’s family, claimed that Bay Clinic failed to prescribe Rienda with an appropriate medicine after finding out the cut was infected.

Read more: http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/state/family-hawaii-girl-who-died-strep-granted-850000

[MLAA]

1. So sad.

[3catwoman3]

2. My health professional background prompts me to suggest...

...adjusting your topic sentence to "untreated strep complications" or the like so readers do not become unnecessarily alarmed, before reading your entire post, that this terrible outcome came from ordinary strep throat that was appropriately treated.

[mahina]

3. Richard Turbin is a great Democratic supporter.

His wife, too.