Austin Facer was giggling at Spongebob Squarepants videos as he waited in excitement for a plane to medically evacuate him from Broken Hill Hospital in 2019. | carriefellner
videos as he waited in excitement for a plane to medically evacuate him from Broken Hill Hospital in 2019.
The inquest heard Broken Hill patients in “urgent” need of evacuation to a tertiary hospital in a capital city routinely wait for six hours and on occasions up to 14 hours for a transfer. He chronicled how Austin’s parents became increasingly concerned over the course of 2018 and 2019 as their son became lethargic and lost his appetite, and would have episodes of shortness of breath or chest pain during exercise, including an instance where he “went to the ground coughing”.The day before his death Austin collapsed at school with chest pain and became unresponsive in the sick bay.
Grilled about those comments, Kummerow defended her actions, saying she had not had time to independently confirm that Austin had a cardiac abnormality. Dr Timothy Bailey, a doctor who was working in Broken Hill’s emergency department on the day, recalled his frustration at the delays in his dealings with the medical retrieval services and referral hospitals.
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