Health Zone: Jill Palmer's medical casebook: We owe son's life to a simple phone call; NHS LINE BEAT DEADLY VIRUS.(Features)

From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: May 31, 2001 | Copyright information

Byline: Jill Palmer

IT WAS the middle of the night, a storm was raging outside and the Wyatt family were staying in a holiday cottage deep in the Cornish countryside when one of their three-year-old twins became seriously ill.

Alaric and his wife, eight-months pregnant Katia, had arrived a few hours earlier with twins Lucas and Dominic.

They knew nobody in the area, the office which ran the cottage complex was closed and they didn't know how to cont...

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