Amrita Lanka’s parents face ‘life sentence of misery’ after daughter’s death at Melbourne hospital, inquest hears

Eight-year-old's parents describe grief of losing smart, caring' girl as coroner examines whether hospital's care was reasonable

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Chandra Lanka is still haunted by his daughter's words on the evening before she died.

While eight-year-old Amrita Lanka was struggling to breathe at Monash children's hospital, she told her mother, Satya Tarapureddi: You are not doing anything. I am not able to breathe. If dad was here, he would have done something."