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'Inadequate' staffing on night of girl's sepsis death

The coroner paid tribute to Aishwarya's father Aswath Chavittupara and mother Prasitha Sasidharan. (Trevor Collens/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Perth hospital staff missed the signs a seven-year-old girl was dying of sepsis because of the pressures caused by "inadequate" staffing, a coroner has found.

Aishwarya Aswath died on Easter Saturday 2021, hours after presenting to the Perth Children's Hospital emergency department with a fever and unusually cold hands.

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