A TEEN told she had a "boring virus" died after doctors failed to spot signs of lethal meningitis and delayed giving her life-saving antibiotics. Mia Ginever, 19, passed away in intensive care on March 9 2022, after battling bacterial meningitis for a few short days. What started as aches and pains and a sore throat escalated quickly into a searing headache, delirium and a rash .
A terrified Mia tragically pleaded with mum Mel, 47, not to let her die as medics failed to properly assess her for hours after she was rushed to hospital. Mel watched her “unique, beautiful and vibrant” daughter deteriorate before her eyes and felt helpless as nurses and doctors hurried around them, seeming to ignore Mia's pain. Ahead of an inquest into her daughter's death, Mel said: “Mia’s whole future has been taken away through no fault of her own.
We trusted the doctors to make the right decisions. If I had any inclination she was going to die, I would have been screaming "She had so much to give to the world and was just ready to embrace her life.” A straight-A student and talented artist studying at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Mia had been brimming with plans for a summer of internships and travelling when she became ill with a sore throat, headache and aches in March 2022.
After a week of worsening symptoms, the 19-year-old went to A&E at Frimley Park Hospital in Camberley, Surrey. But she was sent home after being told she was simply suffering from a "boring" .