The State Government’s claims that Perth Children’s Hospital was properly staffed on the night Aishwarya Aswath died have been proved “patently wrong”, according to AMA (WA) president Dr Mark Duncan-Smith.

As the inquest into the death of the seven-year-old last April continued on Tuesday, evidence of chronic staff shortages — leading to exhaustion and despair — have continued to pile up.

Doctors and nurses on duty that night have all said the shortage of staff had been a major issue for months, raised with hospital bosses — and apparently ignored.

Sunrise correspondent Matt Tinney has the details.

The State Government’s claims that Perth Children’s Hospital was properly staffed on the night Aishwarya Aswath died have been proved “patently wrong”, according to AMA (WA) president Dr Mark Duncan-Smith.
As the inquest into the death of the seven-year-old last April continued on Tuesday, evidence of chronic staff shortages — leading to exhaustion and despair — have continued to pile up.
Doctors and nurses on duty that night have all said the shortage of staff had been a major issue for months, raised with hospital bosses — and apparently ignored.
Sunrise correspondent Matt Tinney has the details.

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