Family members tell a coronial inquest examining the deaths of three Indigenous women in the north-western Queensland town of Doomadgee that 'systematic, ingrained racism' was a contributing factor.
A coronial inquest examining the deaths of three Indigenous women in the north-western Queensland town of Doomadgee has begun its next stage in Cairns today, with family members saying "systematic, ingrained racism" was a contributing factor.Family members of one of the women said she regularly took her medication before becoming ill
The three young women, whose families requested they be referred to as Kaya, Ms Sandy and Betty, died in 2019 and 2020 from complications associated with Rheumatic Heart Disease .ABC Four Corners program revealed the women died after being sent away from the Doomadgee Hospital. Kaya's mother, Weenie George described the years her daughter lived with RHD, and the painful injections she endured.
He said when he spoke to Kaya in June 2020, after she had visited her boyfriend in the NT, he could tell something was wrong.He said after being discharged from Alice Springs Hospital, Kaya was taken to a clinic in Doomadgee.Mr Doomadgee became choked up and wept while describing the following weeks where he said he had to fight for Kaya to be transported to Mt Isa, Townsville and then Brisbane hospitals, where she underwent several surgeries but never recovered.
"It's systemic, ingrained racism that our country is built on … white people are the authority figures in the community," he said.
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