Doctors say investigations into two-year-old’s possible sepsis should have been started much sooner
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The septic shock death of a two-year-old girl in a regional New South Wales hospital was preventable, senior medical experts have told an inquest.
Pippa Mae White died on 13 June 2022, two months before her third birthday, after doctors at the hospitals in Cowra and Orange wrongly assumed she had an acute viral illness rather than the serious bacterial infection that killed her.
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