Baltimore City has agreed to pay the mother of a child who was severely burned during a 2012 trip to Sinai Hospital in a Fire Department ambulance.

In return for dropping her lawsuit in Baltimore Circuit Court, Deneen L. Hall will be paid $97,500 to offset the cost of medical bills incurred by her daughter, Shelby Ryan.

According to a narrative provided by the city law department, the child was suffering from a seizure when paramedics arrived at her Northwest Baltimore house on March 30, 2012.

After securing the girl on a stretcher inside the ambulance, Paramedic Claytonia K. Everette placed an oxygen tank in an upright, but unsecured, position between the girl’s legs.

“When the ambulance reached the hospital, the paramedics discovered that the liquid oxygen had leaked onto the stretcher, and that the substance had burned [the child’s] legs severely.”

Because the child was undergoing seizures and could not speak, “she could not warn her mother or paramedics of the pain she was experiencing as the oxygen was burning her feet,” according to the narrative.

The settlement money, to be formally approved tomorrow by the Board of Estimates, will help pay for the “substantial medical bills” caused by the injury.