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Tom Wark

Rural doctor missed vital call in Indigenous death

Medical imaging could have saved Indigenous woman Eve Brown's life, an inquest into her death found. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

The family of a woman who died in an under-equipped rural clinic say her death is an example of the health inequities still experienced by Indigenous Australians.

Warrimay woman Eve Brown died of shock on July 2, 2021, after an undiagnosed spleen rupture at Lightning Ridge Multi-Purpose Centre in northwest NSW.

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