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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Adeshola Ore and Benita Kolovos

Dio Kemp inquest: doctors say there were no signs of infection when toddler first taken to hospital

Dio Kemp
Dio Kemp, 3, died in hospital on 29 November of septic shock. Photograph: supplied by her mother, Miranda Jowett

The two doctors who initially assessed Victorian toddler Dio Kemp, who died of sepsis eight days later, have told an inquest there were no signs she had the infection when she first presented at hospital.

Dr Timothy Martin and Dr Tobias van Hest, who were working at Monash Medical Centre’s emergency department when the three-year-old first presented in November 2019, gave evidence at a coronial inquest into her death on Tuesday.

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