Five-year-old Lila Marsland was full of joy and had just started school, still thrilled with her new Christmas bike. But after a family walk near Dovestone Reservoir, she fell ill with headache, vomiting, and neck pain—symptoms her mother, a nurse, feared were meningitis. Tragically, her warning was ignored, and Lila’s story became a heartbreaking example of a preventable medical failure.
