Doctors missed Gia’s UTI after childbirth. The Vietnamese Australian woman’s death was preventable, coroner finds

Gia Lam died three days after giving birth to her son at Fairfield hospital in Sydney in 2019. An inquest has examined Lam’s prenatal and postnatal medical care. Photograph: Department of Communities and Justice

A woman who died of sepsis three days after giving birth in western Sydney could have survived if her urinary tract infection (UTI) had been diagnosed, a coroner’s court has found.

It also found the woman, who was born in Vietnam, should have been offered interpreter services so she could communicate better with medical experts.