A hospital trust has apologised to the parents of a three-year-old boy who died from severe bleeding after his artery was pierced by a trainee doctor during a routine procedure.
Aarav Chopra, from Wolverhampton, died during a biopsy at Birmingham Children's Hospital in 2023, after his body had rejected an earlier liver transplant.
A spokesperson for the NHS trust running the hospital said they had not met standards expected of them and changes were made to improve care in the future.
"The strain it's put on us as a family has killed us," his mother Amrita Chopra said.
"Because we took Aarav to a really good place, like he was in the best place for his care, and then they've basically killed him and that's how we see it.
Aarav suffered a cardiac arrest triggered by a build-up of blood in his chest and neglect contributed to his death, a coroner concluded.
An inquest last year concluded that Aarav's death was "contributed to by neglect" and found his death was preventable.
A coroner's report called on the hospital to take action.
They included confusion around the experience of a trainee doctor carrying out the biopsy, who was thought to be a year six trainee but was actually a year four, something the family didn't discover until much later.
Kishore Chopra said they were never informed of a trainee being involved.
Source: BBC News, 23 March 2026
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