Doctors call for health minister to resign over girl’s death
Doctors are calling for a state health minister to resign following the release of a report into the death of a young girl while waiting in emergency at a WA hospital.
The investigation into Aishwarya Aswath’s death follows months of concerns about understaffing, treatment delays and record ambulance ramping at Perth’s hospitals.
The seven-year-old spent two hours waiting in the ED at Perth Children’s Hospital after presenting with a fever and being triaged in the second-least urgent category during the Easter weekend.
Aishwarya’s parents had begged for her to be assessed by doctors after her eyes became cloudy and her hands turned cold.