The grieving parents of Aishwarya Aswath say Perth hospital staff showed little urgency to treat the girl as her condition deteriorated before her death.
Aiswarya Aswath died of sepsis in April last year, hours after presenting to the Perth Children's Hospital emergency department.A Perth doctor who saw Aishwarya Aswath on the night of her death did not have access to the girl's triage notes and misunderstood why she had been brought to hospital, an inquest has heard.
It will also look at why the concerns of Aishwarya's parents were not listened to and acted upon earlier. Ms Tyler said the inquest would hear evidence the doctor believed Ms Sasidharan was solely concerned about Aishwarya's eyes, was not aware of her other symptoms and did not have access to the triage notes.A registered nurse who subsequently examined Aishwarya recorded family concern as zero, which Ms Tyler said "does not appear to reflect the reality".
Aishwarya Aswath's father Aswath Chavittupara said the family's pleas to escalate her care earlier had fallen on deaf ears.In a statement read by Ms Tyler on his behalf, Mr Chavittupara described the nurse as "the rudest nurse that I've ever come across".The nurse sought an emergency department consultant who inspected the girl, and Aishwarya was carried by her father to an assessment bed before being stretchered to a resuscitation area.
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