Kiara's Tragedy: A Preventable Death

0:00On April 22nd, a 13-year-old girl named Kiara Ainsworth, with epilepsy, died in the bathtub at her home in Akrington back in April of last year. Specialist Nurses had warned her family that showers were safer to avoid drowning risks during seizures, but the Inquests revealed her shower wasn't. Working, on top of that, an admin slip-up at her GP practice meant her anti-seizure med stayed at the old dose instead of getting bumped up. Kiara got diagnosed about 14 months before she passed, and she'd been in local authority care before moving back with her mom nine months prior. She was on a child-in-need plan, so social workers checked in regularly. Her mom mentioned trouble picking up meds from Blackburn, but it never got flagged as a support need. Social services said the family seemed solid right up to the end. The last visit, just three days before, went great, with notes even mentioning Kiara's brother using the shower months earlier in September. They praised her mom's turnaround after tough times, noting she handled Kiara's health

1:01needs well. Then the GP doc explained the letter from her specialist arrived November 27th, asking to raise her Levittiracetam dose. But with a thousand letters weekly, staff assumed the hospital handled it. No action taken, pure paperwork mixed up. The Inquests at Preston Corner's Court runs two days, digging deeper into what went wrong. Kiara's stepdad shared how she touched countless lives, leaving memories that stick forever.