Hospital 'ignored' 嘆願s for help before girl's death
A mother says her desperate 嘆願s for hospital staff to help her 病んでいる daughter were ignored before the eight-year-old died about 21 hours after 存在 認める to 緊急.
Amrita Varshini Lanka died from lymphocytic myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, at Monash Children's Hospital on April 30, 2022.
The girl 現在のd at the 緊急 department with stomach 苦痛 and a fever.
初期の 査定／評価s 支配するd out appendicitis, with nurses instead believing Amrita had gastroenteritis.?
But the child developed breathing 問題／発行するs before going into cardiac 逮捕（する） a few hours later and could not be 生き返らせるd.
During an 検死 on Monday, Satya Tarapureddi （刑事）被告 hospital staff of ignoring her 嘆願s for help after her daughter began complaining of stomach 苦痛.
When Amrita and her mum were taken to the hospital 区, about 3pm, a nurse showed her the 緊急 call button which she could 圧力（をかける） to get 援助.
Ms Tarapureddi said she 圧力（をかける）d the button about seven times during the 21-hour ordeal, but no one （機の）カム.
"Nobody was 答える／応じるing. They were ignoring me. I don't know the 推論する／理由," she told the Melbourne 検死官s 法廷，裁判所.
She asked a hospital cleaner for help who 確認するd the button was working.
Ms Tarapureddi said she approached the nurse's desk to tell them of her daughter's 苦痛 and the 欠如（する） of 返答 after 圧力（をかける）ing the button.?
"The nurse told me I had to wait because they were having a conversation," she said.
A nurse arrived about 20 minutes later with Nurofen and then left.
Hours later, Am rita began experiencing difficulty breathing to which a doctor told her it was because she hadn't eaten anything.
In the 早期に hours of April 30, Ms Tarapureddi 表明するd 関心 after seeing Amrita's pulse 率 spike to more than 200 （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域s-per-minute.?
But she said doctor Patrick Tan, the 緊急 department registrar on that night, told her the machine was not working.
Amrita continued to complain of 苦痛 and an electrocardiogram to 実験（する） the 電気の signals in her heart was 成し遂げるd.
Amrita's mum said Dr Tan 供給するd her the 報告（する）／憶測 and said it was "all good", にもかかわらず him noticing there were 異常な results.
Hours later, Amrita's heart stopped for about two minutes before she was 生き返らせるd.
She died after experiencing a second cardiac 逮捕（する） while waiting to be transferred to the 王室の Children's Hospital.
"It's not 平易な to lose a daughter. It's very hard. They just ignored her," Ms Tarapureddi said.
"They lost my daughter. They killed my daughter."
Dr Tan gave 証拠 on Monday where he 譲歩するd there were oversights in Amrita's care.
He had 18 患者s 手渡すd over to him that night, up from the usual 10 and said he didn't 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がる the extent of the girl's 条件 having …に出席するd to another 部類 one 患者.
査定する／（税金などを）課すing Amrita's 異常な heart 報告（する）／憶測, Dr Tan said he felt it was "安心させるing and not a 重要な abnormality".
"At the time, in 状況 of a 重要な 臨床の 負担, I didn't not recognise the 解釈／通訳," he said.
"It would have changed upon realising the dissociation."
Lawyers for Monash Health said staff failed to 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がる the 真面目さ of the 条件 and Amrita's 血 圧力 should have been 監視するd more 定期的に.
The 検死 will 調査／捜査する whether the care 供給するd was reasonable, if the family's 関心s were 答える／応じるd to adequately and if any 資源 強制s or competing 需要・要求するs 与える／捧げるd to her death.
Outside 法廷，裁判所, Amrita's parents hoped the 検死 would 供給する answers to the "many questions we have about what went wrong ... and how it could have been 妨げるd".
