Doctors leave a premature baby to die

'Doctors told me it was against the rules to save my premature baby'
By Vanessa Allen and Andrew Levy
09th September 2009

Doctors left a premature baby to die because he was born two days too early, his devastated mother claimed yesterday.

Sarah Capewell begged them to save her tiny son, who was born just 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy - almost four months early.

They ignored her pleas and allegedly told her they were following national guidelines that babies born before 22 weeks should not be given medical treatment. the rest

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