The grieving parents of Aishwarya Aswath say Perth hospital staff showed little urgency to treat the girl as her condition deteriorated before her death. 9News
She was left in a waiting room for more than 90 minutes, despite her parents pleading with staff to escalate her care as her condition deteriorated.
Aishwarya was triaged in the second-least serious category by a nurse who did not take any physical observations when she arrived at the hospital around 5.30pm on Easter Saturday with her father Aswath Chavittupara and mother Prasitha Sasidharan. A registered nurse who subsequently examined Aishwarya recorded family concern as zero, which Tyler said "does not appear to reflect the reality".
In a statement read by Tyler on his behalf, Chavittupara described the nurse as "the rudest nurse that I've ever come across".Seven-year-old Aishwarya died of sepsis in April last year, hours after presenting to the Perth Children's Hospital emergency department with a fever and unusually cold hands.