Woman loses baby after acne drug wrongly prescribed

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A hospital has paid an undisclosed amount after a pregnant woman was given acne drugs that caused her unborn baby severe abnormalities.

Sarah Sharma, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, lost her baby after being given isotretinoin at Peterborough City Hospital.

The hospital said a pregnancy test was negative so she was given the drugs.

However, it said procedures had now changed so patients are checked twice, a month apart.

Mrs Sharma, 27, who named the girl Indiya following the incident in January 2012, said: "It has been an incredibly difficult year for us.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-22848186
 
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