Staffing shortage at WA hospital where seven-year-old girl died a ‘disaster waiting to happen’, inquest hears

Deputy state coroner says it is clear from the evidence that nurses were run off their feet' and doing too many jobs for one person

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The coroner investigating the death of Aishwarya Aswath has questioned why it took such a tragedy for staffing concerns at Perth Children's hospital to be addressed.

An inquest on Thursday heard nurses had expressed alarm about staffing at the hospital shortly before seven-year-old Aishwarya died of sepsis.

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