Asif Ali moved his family to Australia so that his daughter Dua, who lived with disability, would receive better treatment and have more opportunities than in Pakistan. He said that was always the case, until a trip to Blacktown Hospital in January.
abc.net.au/news/woman-died-days-after-blacktown-hospital-visit/101362574Asif Ali moved his family to Australia so that his daughter Dua, who lived with disability, would receive better treatment and have more opportunities than in Pakistan.
"She was treated special all her life in any hospital she went to, any doctor she went to, she was treated very VIP."Her father remembers her as a loving child and said they had a special relationship.Dua died from aortic dissection at Westmead Hospital after being misdiagnosed days earlier. "Dua had food poisoning before and it was absolutely unusual this time that she was coughing and these are the symptoms not for food poisoning," Dr Ali said.
"Visitor exemptions were available through an application process and were carefully assessed to balance compassion, patient need and safety.'She was in a terrible condition'
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