Girl, 2, given '40 minutes to live' after hospital 'mistook meningitis for bug'

Haisleigh Finlay, now 2, was sent home from A&E and told she had a "stomach bug" - when she was actually battling the life-threatening infection - which left her 'minutes' from death


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