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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Catie McLeod

Pippa White’s death in NSW hospital was preventable and ‘system failed her’, medical experts tell inquest

Pippa Mae White
Pippa Mae White died from sepsis in June 2022, weeks before her third birthday, after being transferred to Orange Hospital in the NSW central west. Photograph: Annah White/AAP

The septic shock death of a two-year-old girl in a regional New South Wales hospital was preventable, senior medical experts have told an inquest.

Pippa Mae White died on 13 June 2022, two months before her third birthday, after doctors at the hospitals in Cowra and Orange wrongly assumed she had an acute viral illness rather than the serious bacterial infection that killed her.

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