Little Lanarkshire girl with leukaemia turned away by doctors TEN times as frantic mum begged for help

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A frantic mum threatened to take her sick little girl abroad for tests before Lanarkshire medics finally responded - and a day later they diagnosed her with leukaemia.

Ilona Zahorszki begged at least 10 doctors to carry out tests on her gravely ill daughter for two months before she was finally diagnosed with the blood cancer on New Year’s Day.

Each time little Theano, three, was taken to her GP, A&E at University Hospital Wishaw or NHS 24 she was dismissed as having mild childhood ailments or other non-life threatening conditions.

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