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British school girl, 17, died from sepsis during school trip to New York
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British school girl, 17, died from sepsis during school trip to New York
A British grammar schoolgirl died from sepsis after ‘history fanatic’ teachers dragged her around New York’s top attractions having ignored her pleas to see a doctor and rest in her hotel, her mother has told an inquest.
Ana Uglow, 17, a student at Bristol Grammar School, was seen ‘retching’ over a bin in the Empire State Building on the day before she was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai West hospital in December 2019.
Miss Uglow had also asked to see a doctor, suffered coughing fits and back pain before she died while on a dream school trip to Washington, Philadelphia and New York, an inquest was told.
Her mother Natalia said her daughter had complained that her teachers were ‘history fanatics’ who she had asked to slow down as they walked around New York seeing tourist attractions and monuments.
Her parents David and Natalia said Ana told teachers she thought she had a chest infection and asked to see a doctor two days before her death, but this was ‘refused’.
Mrs Uglow said she rang the trip’s emergency phone number before texting it: ‘Why did you not take Ana to the doctor when she asked???’
She told the inquest at Avon Coroner’s Court: ‘I was very furious with those teachers who neglected Ana’s request to see a doctor on Tuesday morning and after she had been sick overnight, nothing was done to save her life.’
However, a teacher told the inquest yesterday that Ana had only complained of feeling tired and having a blocked nose, and did not directly ask to see a doctor.
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