A multimillion-dollar judgment-called the largest medical malpractice award ever given in this province for a baby's delivery and care-has been awarded against a doctor who was found negligent in not treating a newborn for herpes.

In a 150-page written decision released on Friday, Madam Justice Shawn Greenberg of Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench found that Dr. Chi Ieng Chow, an obstetrician, was negligent in not suspecting the then 17-year old woman had herpes and not referrring her newborn child to an infectious disease specialist or neonatologist.

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