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

Amrita Lanka died in April 2022, 21 hours after she was admitted to Monash children's hospital. Photograph: supplied by the Lanka family

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.”