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Family of Hawaii girl who died from strep granted $850,000 [View all]
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
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