Lawsuit Filed After Toddler Loses Hand, Both Feet In 5-Hour ER Wait

A California couple has filed a lawsuit against a Sacramento hospital and its employees after their 2-year-old daughter waited five hours in the emergency room to receive treatment for a strep infection that forced doctors to amputate a hand and both of her feet. Little Malyia Jeffers was originally taken to the emergency room at Methodist Hospital in Sacramento in November where she waited with her family for several hours with what doctors thought was just a cold, fever and rash. But her condition quickly deteriorated, and she eventually went into liver failure.

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