Satya Tarapureddi rang call button at least seven times before child died at Monash children’s hospital, coroner hears
Chandra Sekhar Lanka and Satya Tarapureddi, the parents of eight-year-old Amrita Lanka who died at Monash children’s hospital in 2022.Chandra Sekhar Lanka and Satya Tarapureddi, the parents of eight-year-old Amrita Lanka who died at Monash children’s hospital in 2022.girl who died less than a day after presenting at Monash children’s hospital with stomach pain pressed a call button at least seven time as her daughter’s condition deteriorated, an inquest has heard.
She had been suffering stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhoea for two days when her GP referred her to the hospital’s emergency department the day before her death, with suspected appendicitis.The Victorian deputy state coroner, Paresa Spanos, is examining whether the care Lanka receive was reasonable, whether the concerns raised by her family were responded to adequately by hospital staff and if resource constraints were a factor in her death.
Lanka’s mother, Satya Tarapureddi, told the court she had then pleaded with nurses and doctors for help as her daughter reported she was struggling to breathe shortly before 10pm.Under questioning by the family’s barrister Paul Halley, Tarapureddi, said she had rung the call button at least seven times while Lanka was in hospital and waited for more than 30 minutes on one occasion.
Wiping tears from her eyes, Tarapureddi said it was “very hard” to lose a daughter. “They just ignored her,” she said.
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