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A furious mother has claimed NHS doctors ignored her daughter's chest infection - with her only being diagnosed and treated when the family visited a doctor in Spain.
Abbie Curtis's six-year-old daughter Harper developed a high temperature and other cold symptoms on February 3, which had become a 'horrid' cough 10 days later.
Ms Curtis, who works as a female body transformation mentor, visited her local GP, Meon Health Practice, in Fareham, but claims her concerns were ignored on multiple occasions. This is despite her daughter suffering numerous chest infections over the years.
Two months later, in April, Ms Curtis took her daughter to visit a doctor while the family were on holiday in Spain - where she was immediately diagnosed with a lower respiratory chest infection.
'I'm angry and confused, I don't understand why the doctors in Britain didn't take this seriously,' the 42-year-old mother-of-two said.
Abbie Curtis's six-year-old daughter Harper (pictured together) developed a high temperature and other cold symptoms on February 3, which had become a 'horrid' cough 10 days later
Ms Curtis, who works as a female body transformation mentor, visited her local GP, Meon Health Practice, in Fareham, but claims her concerns were ignored on multiple occasions. This is despite her daughter suffering numerous chest infections over the years. Pictured is Harper while unwell.
'I have very little faith in their ability to treat my children due to the way they dismissed my concerns. I told them that I believed it was a chest infection based on her history and knowing the symptoms.'
But Ms Curtis claims that each time she tried to get her daughter seen they were offered to
