UK Woman Sues Her Mother's Doctor For Allowing Her To Be Born. Here Is Why

Due to the condition, Evie Toombes sometimes spends 24 hours a day connected to tubes and her mobility is very limited. She will depend more and more on a wheelchair as she grows older

Evie Toombes, an equestrian show jumper from Lincolnshire, suffers from spina bifida (Instagram)

New Delhi: A woman in the UK, Evie Toombes, moved court against her mother's doctor for allowing her to be born and won the case. The London High Court granted Toombes millions in damages due to the doctor's negligence that resulted in a birth defect, a report in The Daily Mail said.

The 20-year-old equestrian show jumper from Lincolnshire suffers from spina bifida, where the spine and spinal cord of an individual aren't formed properly at birth. 

Due to the condition, Toombes sometimes spends 24 hours a day connected to tubes and her mobility is very limited. She will depend more and more on a wheelchair as she grows older, the report said.

Toombes' attorney told the court that Toombes was suing for "having been born in a damaged state". After Evie Toombes was born in November 2001, Evie was diagnosed with lipomylomeningocoele (LMM), a form of neural tube defect to the spine.

During the hearing, Toombes claimed Dr Philip Mitchell failed to properly advise her mother, Caroline Toombes, while she was pregnant.

Evie Toombes said Dr Mitchell did not advise her mother to take folic acid supplements to minimise the risk of spina bifida affecting her baby. If she had been advised, her mother would have postponed having a baby and she would never have been born, Evie claimed.

"He told me it was not necessary. I was advised that if I had a good diet previously, I would not have to take folic acid," Caroline Toombes told the judge. Dr Mitchell, however, claimed he gave Caroline "reasonable advice", the report said.

Evie had met the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in 2018 when she won the Inspiration Young Person Award at a Wellchild charity event.