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Coronial inquest into baby Levi Shane Vanin’s death to go ahead after agreement reached about cause
A coronial inquest into the death of a four-week-old baby boy at an Adelaide hospital in 2016 will go ahead, despite a last-minute agreement being reached by medical experts that his death was not caused by medical negligence.
Key points:
- Levi Shane Vanin died four weeks after he was born
- A coronial inquest will continue, despite experts being in “joint agreement” about the cause
- The Coroner’s Court heard the death was not due to “inappropriate” care
Four-week-old Levi Shane Vanin was born at Lyell McEwin Hospital at Elizabeth Vale in Adelaide’s north on October 18, 2016.
The baby was not able to breathe on his own and was transferred to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, where he died on November 16, 2016.
A post-mortem found he died from…
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