一名12岁女孩在医生未能测试可治疗的脑炎后自杀死亡。 A 12-year-old girl died by suicide after doctors failed to test for treatable brain inflammation, an inquest found.

2024年1月, 一名12岁女孩Mia Lucas在Sheffield's Becton中心因精神失常被诺丁汉皇后医疗中心接纳后自杀身亡。 A 12-year-old girl, Mia Lucas, died by suicide in January 2024 at Sheffield’s Becton Centre after being admitted to Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre for a psychotic episode. 调查发现,医生未能进行腰椎刺穿或其他可能检测到自免疫脑炎的测试,这种罕见的脑炎导致急性精神病,只是验尸后才证实。 An inquest found that doctors failed to perform a lumbar puncture or other tests that could have detected autoimmune encephalitis, a rare brain inflammation causing acute psychosis, which was only confirmed post-mortem. 陪审团的结论是,未能检验“可能促成”她死亡的情况,而贝克顿中心未能充分管理她的自我伤害风险。 The jury concluded the failure to test “possibly contributed” to her death and that the Becton Centre failed to adequately manage her self-harm risk. 米亚的母亲克洛伊·海耶斯(Chloe Hayes)说,她的女儿是一个健康、快乐的孩子,她从来不想死,而且在每个阶段都受到医疗系统的挫折。 Mia’s mother, Chloe Hayes, said her daughter was a healthy, joyful child who never wanted to die and was let down by the medical system at every stage. 国民保健服务局的信托机构道歉,承认在护理方面有失误。 The NHS trusts involved apologized, acknowledging lapses in care.