Four mistakes prevented doctors and nurses at Hedland health campus from recognising the severity of the womans illness,hearing toldA specialist in emergency medicine has criticised at a coronial inquest the examination of the Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu, who died in a police cell 18 hours after a doctor declared her fit to be in custody.
Dhu, and a 22-year-former Yamatji woman whose full name is not used at her family’s request,died on 4 August 2014 of staphylococcal septicaemia and pneumonia which began as an infection in the bone of a broken rib.
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Source: theguardian.com