rotherham hospital. rotherham nhs hospital trust had previously said it would carry out an internal inquiry, but now saysed what happened to yusuf mahmud nazir once he fell ill with a sore throat on november 13th. he was prescribed antibiotics by the family gp, but his health got worse and he developed a really serious throat infection, so his family drove him to the emergency department at rotherham hospital, where they were seen by a doctor, who prescribed him more antibiotics but sent him home. and that was despite the family's attempts for him to be admitted. his uncle, zaheer ahmed, told the bbc at the weekend that he was told by the hospital they neither had the space nor the staff to admit him. we were begging for their help. we were begging them for their help. we said, "we need you, please can you just give him this antibiotics, can you treat him?" they said, "we haven't got the beds, we haven't got the doctors, we haven't got the facilities, nothing we can do." four days later, yusuf was unable to eat, speak or drink and he was taken by ambulance to sheffield children's hospital, where he was p