A family from Grande Prairie, Alta. has been awarded damages in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over medical care of their infant daughter, who became a quadruple amputee after a bacterial infection was treated too late.

The girl, now 15, is identified only by the initials KB in a pair of court decisions in the case. She was admitted to Grande Prairie's Queen Elizabeth II Hospital as an 11-month-old baby on Feb. 19, 2011.

KB was treated for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), but three days later, on the morning of Feb. 22, she was in septic shock from an advancing lung infection, and she had to be intubated and airlifted to Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital.

After several weeks at the Stollery, with irreversible damage to her limbs stemming from complications of the infection, doct

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