Doctors and nurses were exhausted and demoralised on the day a young girl died shortly after arriving at a WA hospital, an independent report has found.

Seven-year-old Aishwarya Aswath died in early April after waiting nearly two hours to be seen by a doctor at Perth Children’s Hospital where she presented with headache, nausea and vomiting.

While waiting in the ED, her parents repeatedly warned triage staff that her condition was deteriorating.

She was not seen by an ED consultant until a nurse became concerned when she could not lift her head or swallow pain medication.