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Girl’s appendix ruptures during ‘unacceptable’ wait at Adelaide’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital

A seven-year-old girl had to wait eight hours for urgent surgery at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital last month, in what a retired top doctor called “one of the worst cases of neglect of duty of care” he had ever seen.
Key points:
- An Adelaide girl waited more than eight hours to be treated for appendicitis
- The WCH Alliance say it is an example of delays in care at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital
- The hospital says an investigation is underway
The Women’s and Children’s Health Network, which runs the North Adelaide hospital, has previously denied claims of delays at the emergency department.
Audrey went to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital at 3:00pm on March 1 after her GP diagnosed her with appendicitis.
She was examined by a nurse…
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