Govt pledges to do better after damning inquest into rheumatic heart disease deaths
A cardiac specialist decried the 'national disgrace' of preventable deaths.
The day 18-year-old Betty died from rheumatic heart disease complications, the two locum doctors providing care in her final hours had no time for a handover.
The incoming locum arrived at 3pm on 23 September 2019 as the outgoing locum raced to meet the small aircraft waiting on the tarmac in the isolated Queensland community of Doomadgee, 2200km north-west of Brisbane.
