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Campaigners today called on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to review the closure of an accident and emergency department after the death of a two-year-old rushed there by his mother.

Muhammad Hashir Naveed was taken to Chase Farm hospital in Enfield about 3am last Wednesday by his frantic mother Maryam, 27, because she did not realise its 24-hour casualty unit had been axed on December 9.

An ambulance was called by a nurse to take him to North Middlesex hospital five miles away in Edmonton but medics were unable to save him and Hashir, as he was known, was pronounced dead at 4am.

Save Chase Farm spokesman Kieran McGregor told the Standard: “We would call upon the Secretary of State and other decision-makers to have an urgent review of the [closure] decision.

“The fears of the Save Chase Farm group prior to the closure of the A&E was that a tragedy such as this would occur. Our sympathies go out to the family of the child concerned. We fear there’s a likelihood this could repeat itself.”

Campaigners and Labour-run Enfield council last November lost a High Court battle to save the A&E and maternity units at Chase Farm. Barnet and Chase Farm NHS trust and GPs funding hospital care in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey voted to centralise emergency services at Barnet General and North Middlesex - leaving just a 9am-9pm urgent care centre at Chase Farm.

David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, tweeted that Hashir’s case was a “very, very sad example of why it’s so important that A&E closures in London are stopped”.

Friends of the boy’s family said the half-hour delay caused by his mother first going to Chase Farm - the hospital nearest to her home in Oakwood - may have cost him his life.

A full investigation has now been launched into the death by the hospital trust and GPs.

Nick de Bois, Conservative MP for Enfield North, said the closure had left a “confusing mish-mash” of emergency services at Chase Farm.

Mr de Bois said: “They went to Chase Farm in good faith under the most distressing circumstances, thinking that this was the right place to go in the middle of the night.

“It is not fair to expect people to distinguish between urgent care and life-threatening conditions when they are at their most vulnerable, but that’s what they are expected to do now that A&Es are being downgraded across the country to Urgent Care Centres.”

A spokesman for Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust said: “The trust can confirm that an ambulance was called immediately by trust staff. The child was attended to on-site where resuscitation was initiated.

“The child was placed in the care of the London Ambulance Service who continued to resuscitate him during the transfer to North Middlesex University Hospital.”

A London Ambulance Service spokesman said: “Extensive efforts were made by staff to resuscitate the boy and he was taken as a priority to North Middlesex Hospital.”