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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The parents of a two-year-old boy whose brain injury left him blind, deaf and a quadriplegic have agreed to settle a lawsuit against the federal government for four-point-six (M)million dollars.
The agreement, which must be approved by the U.S. Justice Department, would give two-point-two million dollars to the family of Omar Castaneda Cortez. It would also set two-point-four million dollars in trust to pay for his care.
The boy's parents, Alejandro Castaneda and Alda Cortez, sued the government last year because Omar was treated at a federally supported clinic after he was born in October 2004.
The lawsuit said workers failed to notice the child's head size increased about 10 centimeters during two months of medical exams. The parents said doctors failed to notice that Omar was suffering from obstructive hydrocephalus.
He had problems in his brain stem in December 2004. Omar went into cardiopulmonary arrest, which caused neurological damage.
Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune,
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