“Aishwarya’s care, her extremely rapid deterioration in the ED and her tragic death has resulted in immense loss, anguish and pain suffered by Aishwarya’s family and constitutes a personal crisis of unimaginable proportions,” the report said.įamily spokesperson Suresh Rajan said Aishwarya’s parents were disappointed with the report’s focus and hoped an upcoming coronial inquest would provide more answers about what led to her death. The independent report was critical of the hospital’s executive team for failing to endorse the internal review, saying it had created “misunderstanding and confusion with no apparent benefit”. Designed from a childs perspective, Perth Childrens Hospital (PCH) employs a playful design approach to reduce anxiety for patients, families and carers. She was pronounced dead within two hours of entering a resuscitation bay, having succumbed to an infection related to group A streptococcus. Currently families who do not want their child. Although this service provides advice, support and liaison for children and families, there are only two options for place of care for children with life-limiting illnesses at home or in hospital.
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Within 20 minutes of arriving, her hands were cold, her eyes were discoloured and her respiratory rate and heart rate were significantly elevated.īut a review by the Child and Adolescent Health Service found the severity of her condition wasn’t recognised until an hour and 17 minutes later, despite Aishwarya’s parents having raised concerns on five separate occasions. Currently, children with palliative care needs are provided services by the WA Paediatric Palliative Care Service based at Perth Children’s Hospital. They include staff communication training, recognising parents’ “extraordinary role in the recognition of deterioration” and minimising the use of casual staff.Īishwarya was taken to the $1.2bn hospital with a fever and triaged by a nurse – who did not check her vital signs – in the second-least urgent category. The government has accepted all 30 recommendations made by the independent committee. He said the ED’s staffing had been bolstered as part of a major new investment in public hospitals. On Tuesday, he said the emergency department had been “fully rostered” but acknowledged it had not been sufficient. Western Australian health minister, Roger Cook, had previously defended the hospital’s staffing levels on the night Aishwarya died. The inquiry found an unusual rise in presentations between October and December 2020 had swamped the emergency department.Ī heavy reliance on recruiting nurses from interstate and overseas and low levels of full-time permanency in the nursing workforce had left PCH “particularly vulnerable” to disruptions associated with the coronavirus pandemic.
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“The anguish and pain of the family were in the public domain … the health system, the hospital and large numbers of staff at all levels, found themselves unprepared, deeply saddened and devastated,” the report released on Tuesday said. Junior staff were referred to the medical watchdog after Aishwarya’s death, further damaging trust and morale and prompting unions to organise protests. The triage and waiting areas were “particularly vulnerable and suboptimally staffed”, doctors and nurses were burnt out and a major increase in ED presentations was not met with sufficient urgency.