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Aaron Sikorski was only 13 months old when he swallowed the battery while playing at home and was taken to his GP and A&E but a chest x-ray was not taken for another nine days
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Aaron Sikorski, aged one at the time, not sent for X-ray despite mother’s concerns and visits to GP and hospital ED
The HSE and a GP have apologised in the High Court to the mother of a six-year-old boy for the treatment her young son received after he swallowed a button battery.
It was claimed if a chest x-ray had taken place the presence of a button battery would have been identified
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