Toddler made to wait hours for hospital treatment has feet and hand amputated

Toddler made to wait hours for hospital treatment has feet and hand amputated due to infection
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:30 AM on 2nd January 2011

A Sacramento toddler who was forced to wait five hours in a hospital's emergency room has had to have both feet and her left hand amputated due to complications of her illness.

Malyia Jeffers, two, is at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital after what appeared to be a simple fever developed into a terrifying blood infection that still threatens the little girl's life.

Her distraught father Ryan Jeffers says he is angry at the fact that he had to beg medical staff to pay closer attention to his daughter as her condition deteriorated before his eyes.  FULL STORY