Medical care slammed in damning report into girl’s death
ED staff failed to escalate Aishwarya Aswath’s care to senior doctors despite her parents' warnings she was rapidly deteriorating, a WA government review finds
Disengaged staff ignored protocols and broken equipment led to treatment delays for a young girl who died shortly after presenting to a WA hospital, a damning state government report has found.
Aishwarya Aswath died after waiting nearly two hours to be seen by a doctor at Perth Children’s Hospital on Easter Saturday where she presented with headache, nausea and vomiting.
Her death has since been attributed to Streptococcus A sepsis.
This week a critical incident investigation has laid bare the preventable factors that contributed to treatment delays and potentially the seven-year-old’s death.
