Four children have died after failings in how stem cells used in life-saving operations were frozen at Great Ormond Street hospital, it emerged this week. The four, who were between one and 12 years old, were among eight children with cancer whose bone marrow transplants did not work as a result of problems with the freezing process. Britain’s best-known children’s hospital has admitted that one of them, four-year-old Katie Joyce, might have survived if it had acted more quickly when problems arose.
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