The father of a 4-year-old girl who is in intensive care with Group A Strep said he is “praying for a miracle” that she comes home alive.
Dean Burns’ daughter, Camila Rose Burns, has been fighting for her life on a ventilator at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital since Monday after contracting the infection.
He told Sky News that he has been “living in an absolute nightmare” since his daughter was taken to hospital.
“She’s still nowhere near out of the woods, she’s really, really poorly,” he said, reports Sky.
Mr. Burns, who lives in Bolton with his family, said there was a virus at Camila’s school, so they kept an eye on her over the weekend.
He explained that she had been complaining of chest pain.
After a visit to the hospital on Saturday, where doctors prescribed an inhaler and told her she could go home, her health deteriorated on Sunday and she was rushed to the emergency room.
Since then, Camila has been in Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, unresponsive in the intensive care unit.
“She’s fighting for her life, and I’ve told her how much I love her, her mum loves, her sister loves her, we all love her. Everyone’s saying prayers for her, hoping for a miracle she lives. She needs to live, she’s such a special little girl. I can still hear her singing… it’s too much,” Mr Burns added, reports Sky.
He now urges other parents to “look out for the signs” and act quickly if they see their child is sick.
“When I look back it still just seemed like a sickness bug, she was really lethargic at times, but her health was improving until she completely changed,” he said, reports Sky.
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