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Aishwarya Aswath inquest: 'Small chance' earlier treatment in Perth Children's Hospital could have saved her life, coroner finds

Aishwarya Aswath's treatment and death sparked major reform of the Perth Children's Hospital. (Supplied: Family)

There was a "small possibility" a seven-year-old girl who died of sepsis after waiting almost two hours to be admitted to Perth Children's Hospital (PCH) might have lived if she had received care sooner, a coronial inquest has found.

The state's deputy coroner has handed down her long-awaited findings into the death of Aishwarya Aswath after her parents brought her into the hospital's emergency department (ED) one afternoon in April 2021.

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