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Lancaster baby's death due to midwives' gross failures, coroner rules

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Ida Lock was born at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary on 9 November 2019 .

But she died a week later after suffering a serious brain injury due to a lack of oxygen.

Coroner James Adeley ruled that her death was caused by the midwives' failure to deliver the infant.

He said there had been eight missed opportunities to alter Ida 's clinical course.

Ida was transferred to the intensive care unit at Royal Preston Hospital .

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