Minister apologises after death of young girl who waited two hours in Perth emergency department

Health minister would not be drawn on whether Aishwarya Aswath's death could have been avoided over Easter weekend

The Western Australian government has apologised for a failure" at a Perth hospital where a seven-year-old girl died after her parents' desperate pleas for help were ignored.

Aishwarya Aswath spent two hours waiting in the emergency department at Perth Children's hospital during the Easter weekend after presenting with a fever and being triaged in the second-least urgent category.