In Brief:Girl dies after plastic surgery
A hospital has ordered an inquiry after a 14-year-old girl, Janine Connor, from Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, died after what should have been a simple operation to pin back her ears at Withington Hospital, in Manchester.
Her lungs collapsed under a general anaesthetic and she died in the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital six days later.
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