
My little girl died on the way to the doctor after being diagnosed with a ‘tummy bug.’
A COUPLE LOST THEIR FIVE-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER HOURS AFTER A GP said she most likely had a “tummy bug.” When Esma Guzel’s condition worsened, her parents drove her to an after-hours doctor, where she died. Esma had an undiagnosed birth defect that caused a hole in her diaphragm – congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). At the inquest into her heartbreaking death on







