Townsville family pushes for change after little boy with shunt dies in hospital

Townsville boy Lucas Faram was a “battler” all through his short life.

The beloved three-year-old boy had a myriad of health problems since birth, most notably fluid-related pressure on his brain.

That required him to have a ventriculoperitoneal shunt, a tube-like device in his brain, at four months old.

“Lucas was a battler, mate. He defied the odds from the start,” his father Paul Faram told 7NEWS.

He was also born premature and with cerebral palsy.

But he lived a full life and loved…