Guess the Race! 7 year old ignored in Children Hospital, uplorried

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A Perth mother and father claim their pleas for help were ignored as they were forced to wait for two hours in a Perth hospital emergency department before the sudden death of their seven-year-old daughter just hours later.

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In the wake of the tragedy, WA’s Health Minister Roger Cook requested an urgent briefing from the health department to understand the circumstances surrounding the girl’s death.
Aishwarya Aswath was brought to the emergency department of Perth Children’s Hospital by her parents on Saturday after she had developed a fever on Friday. Her parents had let her rest and given her Panadol and when she wasn’t better the next day, rushed to hospital.


Aishwarya’s parents say her condition deteriorated rapidly, her eyes were cloudy and her hands were cold.
The Morley couple pleaded with staff to have their daughter looked at over and over but said they were rebuffed.

Aishwarya Aswath wanted to be a teacher and loved the news.CREDIT:NINE NEWS PERTH
“I asked them .. . her eyes are changing, they asked if it’s normal and I said ‘It’s not normal, she didn’t have it before’, and they said ‘The doctor will come and have a look’,” Prasitha Sasidharan, Aishwarya’s mother, said.
They said they approached staff several times but were ignored.

“I went to the reception maybe four or five times and I asked them to have a look at her,” Ms Sasidharan said.
“They were actually neglecting us. We pleaded with them to have a look. They didn’t think it was an emergency.”
Aishwarya died within hours, the parents said, and they are calling for an urgent review into how the emergency department is run.

Aishwayra’s parents believe had their daughter been looked at immediately she would be here today.CREDIT:NINE NEWS PERTH
“They failed to find out that this is an emergency. It shouldn’t happen to anybody else,” Ms Sasidharan said.

The hospital management expressed their sincere condolences to the family and offered support.
“My sincere condolences to this family at this extremely distressing time. We will continue to provide any support we can,” Dr Simon Wood said in a statement.
“We have started a review of this death in hospital and we will provide information to the family as soon as possible”.
The coroner is also investigating the death.
In a statement WA Health Minister Roger Cook expressed his sincere condolences and flagged an urgent briefing with the health department into the circumstances of the death.

“The loss of a child is unbearable for any family,” he said.
Health Minister Roger Cook has been under fire in recent weeks after two major Perth hospitals issued code yellow alerts, meaning people were turned away and the hospital dealt with only the most serious of cases. A third hospital was hovering on the verge of the stress alert.
In February this year a Perth-based emergency physician and the Western Australia Faculty Chair of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine penned an emphatic opinion piece, saying “quite simply, there are not enough beds in our WA hospitals and EDs to accommodate all the sick and injured people who come to us for help every day. And this is very dangerous.”
“If you, or a friend or family member have an accident, or become very ill, and seek help at a hospital that is access blocked then you, or they, are 10 per cent more likely to die.”

 

[Cottonmouth]

If they stayed in India, they would have gotten much better medical care from their fellow shitskins.
Why did they go Australia to be ignored?

 

[syed putra]

If they stayed in India, they would have gotten much better medical care from their fellow shitskins.
Why did they go Australia to be ignored?

Maybe the doctors thought the kid was a "abo".

 

[glockman]

Maybe the doctors thought the kid was a "abo".

Coming from you, a shitskin, I reckon there is some truth in what you mentioned.

 

[Cottonmouth]

Maybe the doctors thought the kid was a "abo".

abo aneh, same..

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Nurses fear being made 'scapegoats' after seven-year-old girl's hospital death
A head shot of a smiling young girl in a frame with red flowers around it.
Aishwarya Aswath's family want a review of procedures at Perth Children's Hospital.( Supplied: Suresh Rajan )
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Nurses at Perth Children's Hospital warned management in December understaffing was compromising patient safety and it would take a "catastrophic incident" before anything changed, their union says.

Key points:
Nurses say they feared being blamed for problems caused by under-staffing
They say the government needs to admit the hospital system is in crisis
WA's Health Minister says Aishwarya was "overlooked" before her death
The role of nurses and other staff at the hospital is under intense scrutiny after the parents of a seven-year-old girl pleaded desperately with emergency department reception staff for her to be urgently treated before she died on the weekend.

Aishwarya Aswath's parents said they rushed her to the hospital at about 5pm on Saturday after she developed a fever the day before, and begged for help four or five times when her hands went cold and her eyes went cloudy.

But she was not seen for two hours, and tragically died several hours later.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is calling for an independent inquiry into the death of Aishwarya on Saturday, beyond the urgent review demanded by Health Minister Roger Cook.

Aishwarya's family wants a review into procedures at PCH and more staffing to accommodate emergency cases, to ensure nothing like this happens again.

Aishwarya was overlooked: Cook
PCH nurses met on Tuesday to discuss the tragedy.

The Australian Nursing Federation said they met with the hospital's executive team in December to raise concerns about understaffing and patient safety.

ANF state secretary Mark Olson said they stated it would take "a catastrophic incident to occur before something changed" and they felt they "would be thrown under the bus when this did happen".

Heath Minister Roger Cook said it appeared Aishwarya's condition was "overlooked" at the hospital.

A head and shoulders of a young girl smiling, wearing sunglasses and holding two thumbs up
Aishwarya Aswath waited for two hours at Perth Children's Hospital's emergency department before she died on the weekend.( Supplied: Channel Nine )
He had asked the Health Department's acting director-general to provide him with answers as a matter of priority to "try to make some sense of this horrible series of events".

"Our system is challenged at the moment," he conceded in an interview on ABC 720 Perth on Tuesday.

The health system has been under pressure in recent weeks with record ambulance ramping and blockages at emergency departments.

At the time, Mr Cook admitted it was unusual to have two hospitals tip into "code yellow" on a single day and was "a sign of a system under pressure".

But Mr Olson said Mr Cook's comment that Aishwarya was "overlooked" by hospital staff was "the start of the campaign to use nurses as a scapegoat."

"It's offensive to our members," he said.

'Significant harm' incidents raised by nurse
Mr Olsen released an email sent to him by a PCH nurse on March 9, stating there had already been "several incidents resulting in significant harm" in the past few months.

The nurse wrote they had experienced an "unprecedented level of activity" since October last year, and a ratio of one nurse to 11 patients was becoming the norm.

Australian Nursing Federation state secretary Mark Olson
Australian Nursing Federation state secretary Mark Olson says nurses are being used as scapegoats by the WA government.( ABC News: Nicolas Perpitch )
"We have grave concerns regarding the staffing levels and safety within our department," the letter said.

According to the letter, nurses had not heard anything back from the executive since they met in December and proposed solutions, including hiring more nursing staff.

"Our concerns are consistently downplayed, dismissed or outright ignored by the executive team," the letter said.

Mr Olson said nurses had been warning the hospital was not safe for months.

"How can you possibly say it is safe when you have 93 patients being cared for by eight staff?, Mr Olson said.

"Compare that with what's going on in other states. That's outrageously dangerous."

Doctor shortage on night
Child and Adolescent Health Service chair Debbie Karasinski said four doctors were sick on the night Aishwarya came to the hospital and did not attend work.

Ms Karasinski said she did not know if that made any difference to her treatment, but it would be addressed by the review, which was due to report in four to six weeks.

"We are definitely in need of more doctors and more nurses at the moment," she said.

AMA state president Andrew Miller said Aishwarya was waiting at least an hour longer than any child should in an emergency department, according to the national standard.

"Today, our hospitals are not as safe as they could be, and not as safe as they used to be," Dr Miller said.

"The problem is within a system that is being run to a budget that's too tight, not enough workers.

"These are the sorts of things that go wrong. We'll only see in time whether it contributed in this particular case."

King Edward delays surgeries
On Monday, it emerged King Edward Hospital had to delay non-urgent elective surgery

Mr Cook attributed it to an 11 per cent spike in babies delivered at the hospital over the last six months, compared to the same time last year.

He said a drop in private health insurance had put more pressure on the public system, and at the same time it was difficult to recruit new overseas staff because of COVID-19 restrictions on international borders.

A sign outside the main entrance of King Edward Memorial Hospital in Subiaco.
Roger Cook blamed the delay to surgery at King Edward Memorial Hospital on people dropping their private health cover.( ABC News: John Kerr )

The hospital is currently advertising nationally and internationally for 85 midwives and nursing staff.
Mr Olson said the Government needed to be honest about hospital capacity.

"You have to say 'we can't deliver the services you expect of us at this time'. You have to have the adult conversation rather than trying to pretend there is no crisis," he said.

"Yes, there is a crisis, they need to let the staffing catch up with the activity."

Mr Cook said the government was responding with a significant investment in hospital services, including 300 extra hospital beds.

He said emergency departments were being expanded, with 100 extra beds and bays planned and an "extensive workforce development program" to make sure there was the staff to stand by those beds.

'I will get answers for family': Cook
Mr Cook expressed his condolences to Aishwarya's family.

He said he spoke to her father on Tuesday and made a personal commitment to him and his wife.

Headshot of a man at a lectern.
WA Health Minister Roger Cook said he would do everything he could to find out why seven-year-old Aishwarya Aswath died.( ABC News: David Weber )
"I will do everything possible to get answers to the questions on what happened to their daughter," he said.

"I want to know what happened, whether mistakes were made and whether changes need to happen."

There will be a review conducted by the Child and Adolescent Health Service into the cause of the tragedy.

Her death will also be referred to the coroner.

Posted Yesterday, updated Yesterday
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abo aneh, same..

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[Cottonmouth]

I guess that's why they are taking over the world.

What delusional world is that?

 

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What delusional world is that?

This one

 

[Cottonmouth]

This one
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A Perth mother and father claim their pleas for help were ignored as they were forced to wait for two hours in a Perth hospital emergency department before the sudden death of their seven-year-old daughter just hours later.

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In the wake of the tragedy, WA’s Health Minister Roger Cook requested an urgent briefing from the health department to understand the circumstances surrounding the girl’s death.
Aishwarya Aswath was brought to the emergency department of Perth Children’s Hospital by her parents on Saturday after she had developed a fever on Friday. Her parents had let her rest and given her Panadol and when she wasn’t better the next day, rushed to hospital.


Aishwarya’s parents say her condition deteriorated rapidly, her eyes were cloudy and her hands were cold.
The Morley couple pleaded with staff to have their daughter looked at over and over but said they were rebuffed.

Aishwarya Aswath wanted to be a teacher and loved the news.CREDIT:NINE NEWS PERTH
“I asked them .. . her eyes are changing, they asked if it’s normal and I said ‘It’s not normal, she didn’t have it before’, and they said ‘The doctor will come and have a look’,” Prasitha Sasidharan, Aishwarya’s mother, said.
They said they approached staff several times but were ignored.

“I went to the reception maybe four or five times and I asked them to have a look at her,” Ms Sasidharan said.
“They were actually neglecting us. We pleaded with them to have a look. They didn’t think it was an emergency.”
Aishwarya died within hours, the parents said, and they are calling for an urgent review into how the emergency department is run.

Aishwayra’s parents believe had their daughter been looked at immediately she would be here today.CREDIT:NINE NEWS PERTH
“They failed to find out that this is an emergency. It shouldn’t happen to anybody else,” Ms Sasidharan said.

The hospital management expressed their sincere condolences to the family and offered support.
“My sincere condolences to this family at this extremely distressing time. We will continue to provide any support we can,” Dr Simon Wood said in a statement.
“We have started a review of this death in hospital and we will provide information to the family as soon as possible”.
The coroner is also investigating the death.
In a statement WA Health Minister Roger Cook expressed his sincere condolences and flagged an urgent briefing with the health department into the circumstances of the death.

“The loss of a child is unbearable for any family,” he said.
Health Minister Roger Cook has been under fire in recent weeks after two major Perth hospitals issued code yellow alerts, meaning people were turned away and the hospital dealt with only the most serious of cases. A third hospital was hovering on the verge of the stress alert.
In February this year a Perth-based emergency physician and the Western Australia Faculty Chair of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine penned an emphatic opinion piece, saying “quite simply, there are not enough beds in our WA hospitals and EDs to accommodate all the sick and injured people who come to us for help every day. And this is very dangerous.”
“If you, or a friend or family member have an accident, or become very ill, and seek help at a hospital that is access blocked then you, or they, are 10 per cent more likely to die.”

RIP child.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Now the parents will go all out to demand compensation from the gahmen,,,huat ah,,,and why was the child sepsis in the 1st place? did they give the child wrong food or medication?

What happened in the minutes and hours before Aishwarya Aswath died as her parents pleaded for help​

By James Carmody
Posted 7hhours ago, updated 5hhours ago

The report into Aishwarya Aswath's death revealed a "cascade of missed opportunities" in hospital.(
Supplied: Family
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Minute by minute, the internal report into the death of seven-year-old Aishwarya Aswath reveals a "cascade of missed opportunities" which may have contributed to her dying at Perth Children's Hospital on Saturday April 3.
Compiled by a panel of 10 members, predominately clinical staff, the report relied on 14 interviews with staff along with CCTV footage from the hospital's emergency department.
Here are how things unfolded, according to the report.

5:32pm​

Aishwarya's father, Aswath Chavittupara, carried her into the Perth Children's Hospital (PCH) emergency department.

5:33pm​

The only nurse on the triage desk conducted a "limited primary assessment" of Aishwarya from behind a glass screen. They did not feel her skin or take her pulse.
Aishwarya's parents told the triage nurse she had a headache and had "gastro" and her hands were cold.

Aishwarya's parents, Aswath Chavittupara and Prasitha Sasidharan, are demanding more answers.(
ABC News: Charlotte Hamlyn
)
Aishwarya was given a triage score of 4, which meant she was allocated a wait time of one hour to be seen by medical staff.
The report found that the design of the triage workspace and the practice of not taking a pulse and not feeling the patient's skin led to an incomplete assessment.
This caused a delay in treatment which may have contributed to her death.

5:41pm​

Aishwarya's mother, Prasitha Sasidharan, spoke to a clerk at the desk because she was concerned about discolouration in her daughter's eyes.
The clerk called a doctor who looked at the girl's eyes and noticed there was "unusual discolouration" but that she otherwise "appeared well".
CCTV footage showed this interaction lasted about 20 seconds and the doctor did not examine the patient any further, nor did he record the discolouration because he did not think it was serious enough.

5:42pm​

Aishwarya's mother approached the desk a second time and spoke with another clerk, and could be seen in CCTV footage pointing at her own eyes.
Aishwarya could be seen in the background and appeared "floppy".

The report found hospital staff did not address the concerns of Aishwarya’s parents as her condition deteriorated.(
Supplied: Suresh Rajan
)
The clerk said they then left the desk and passed the information on to the waiting room nurse.
CCTV showed Aishwarya's mother and father then attempting to open her eyes.
The report stated that they both look "agitated".

5:45pm​

Aishwarya's mother returned to the desk a third time and could be seen looking around before speaking to a third clerk.

5:46pm​

For a fourth time, Aishwarya's mother returned to the desk, this time carrying a Medicare card, and the clerk recounted telling her that there were not many patients waiting so they would be seen next.
The report found that a culture had developed at PCH "which saw escalation as futile and ineffective", and as a result there were failures to call for assistance at times of increased acuity and activity, even when support was available.

5:52pm​

The waiting room nurse, assisted by a student nurse, took Aishwarya's vital signs and her body temperature was recorded as 38.8 degrees Celsius.

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Despite the nurse's chart featuring a prompt to check for sepsis in patients with temperatures above 38.5 degrees, this was not done.
The nurse recorded that the father was worried as Aishwarya was cold and had discoloured irises, was "alert, clingy and grunting in pain" and that her mother was anxious.
Aishwarya's mother could be seen pacing in the CCTV footage.
The nurse ticked a box on their chart indicating "parental concern" was "absent".
Aishwarya's pain rating was recorded as zero.
The report found that a lack of recognition of Aishwarya's parents persistent and significant concerns resulted in a delay in treatment which may have contributed to her death, as did the lack of a formal process for families to seek more senior assistance.
The report went on to find the failure to respond to a "clearly defined prompt" to consider sepsis resulted in "non-escalation" which may have led to Aishwarya's death.

6:10pm​

A patient elsewhere in the hospital required resuscitation and the nurse treating Aishwarya was required to leave what they were doing.
As a result of the resuscitation, there was only one nurse left covering eight cubicles and the waiting room.
The report found that having the waiting room nurse as a member of the resuscitation team resulted in the waiting room being unattended during resuscitations.
This led to "fragmented care" and a "delay in reassessment" and may have contributed to Aishwarya's death.

6:42pm​

CCTV footage showed Aishwarya's father pick his daughter up and put her back on the seat, and that she appeared "floppy".

6:45pm​

The registered nurse who had been caring for Aishwarya returned from the resuscitation and conducts a handover with another registered nurse.

The case has sparked questions over standards of care and staffing levels at Perth Children's Hospital.(
ABC News: Andrew O'Connor
)
The report went on to state that an 'incomplete clinical handover between staff resulted in a non-urgent escalation and contributed to a delay in treatment".

7:06pm​

A clerk at the desk noticed that Aishwarya's head was "lolling back and her limbs looked very limp, her father was holding her", so they immediately notified a nurse.
The nurse observed that Aishwarya was awake and talking with two-word responses, but could not lift her arms and that her arms appeared stiff.
The nurse also noted Aishwarya's parents were very distressed.
They left to get an emergency department consultant doctor.

7:09pm​

The doctor spoke to Aishwarya's parents and noted she had slurred speech and cold peripheries, and she was transferred to another part of the emergency department.

7:14pm​

Another nurse enters the cubicle that Aishwarya and her parents are in.

Aishwarya's parents went on a hunger strike to demand a proper investigation into her death. (
ABC News: West Matteeussen
)
That nurse recounted immediately noting Aishwarya's feet and hands were "icy cold to touch", her mouth was dry and her breathing laboured, and the girl was only able to give short 1-2 syllable answers to questions with a delayed response time and using great effort to speak.
Another nurse then noticed the whites of Aishwarya's eyes were bloodshot and yellowish in colour, and her bed was moved to the resuscitation bay and the 'resus team' was called.

7:18pm​

CCTV footage showed Aishwarya being pushed to the resuscitation room where she was seen to by the resus team, made up of a number of doctors and nurses.
They soon began working on the understanding she may have been septic.

7:30pm​

The only blood gas machine in the ED was not working, and one had to be sourced from elsewhere.
The report found the lack of a second machine, or at least one that did not stop working, may have resulted in a delayed intervention or an inaccurate reading during the resuscitation.
Despite numerous attempted interventions, Aishwarya's condition continued to deteriorate.

8:21pm​

Aishwarya went into cardiac arrest and CPR was commenced. She went into cardiac arrest at least three more times.

9:04pm​

CPR was ceased and Aishwarya was declared dead.
It was later detected in multiple tests that Aishwarya had a Group A Streptoccus (sepsis) infection, which resulted in rapid deterioration and the report found that may have contributed to her death.
This part of the internal report was released by the family on Monday.

Family spokesman Suresh Rajan released the report into Aishwarya's death yesterday.(
ABC News: James Carmody
)
The family has taken issue with the "accuracy" of parts of the report and is eagerly awaiting an independent external review and a coroner's inquiry into Aishwarya's death.
No dates have been set for either.
Posted 7hhours ago, updated 5hhours ago

 

[Leongsam]

They can't blame Covid so they blame staffing.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

They can't blame Covid so they blame staffing.

If the article is true,,,as the ABC journalism standard is equivalent to tabloid news...the staffing levels for the hospital is really low,,,,however the main issue is how did the girl get the infection? and the parents basically struck lottery with this,,,will get millions in pay out,,,and they can have a few more kids,,,so better to milk this sob story for all its worth

 

[laksaboy]

Oh poor victims you subcontinental shitskins. Play the race card for media sympathy.

 

[Lizzert]

Oh poor victims you subcontinental shitskins. Play the race card for media sympathy.

Followed by law suit and hope for bigger payout due to media frenzy

 

[capamerica]

They can't blame Covid so they blame staffing.

I blame stupid people like you

 

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