Last fall, Actor Dennis Quaid’s twins survived an overdose. It became national news. But here in Florida, another child was given ten times what he should have been given and he quietly died. The family is now trying to turn the tragedy into something positive.

By all accounts, Sebastian Ferrero was a happy, healthy 3 year old. His only problem...not growing fast enough. So his parents took him to Shands.

Luisa Ferrero, his mother, says it was supposed to be simple.

“It was supposed to be, you know, a simple 4 hour test”

Halfway into the procedure, Sebastian showed stress. His mother questioned the doctors and the dosage.

Horst Ferrero, the baby’s father said they were told all was Okay.

“But she was reassured the dosage was appropriate”

An emergency room visit and 48 hours later Sebastian was dead. The 3 year old had been given 60 grams instead of 6 grams of a substance used to test growth hormones.

Now the family wants to turn their grief into action.

They have offered to match up to a million dollars toward the construction of a children’s hospital. They are also on a campaign to make sure parents’ voices are heard.

“A child can not say can you check to dose to see if it is correct, so if a parent is asking those question, they must be heard”.

“We don’t want another family to go through we are going through and what Sebastian went through”.

Medical errors kill an estimated 98 thousand people in the U-S every year. Sebastian is the face of one of them.

The family did received 850 thousand dollars from the Hospital. It is using that money as well as some of their own to match private donations. You can learn more about the case on the family web site at http://www.sebastianferrero.org/