Scenes of chaos witnessed at Queensland hospital in the hours before boy’s death

Kymberlie Ousby has described the scenes in Logan hospital’s emergency department waiting room on the night of the death. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP

A patient has described chaotic scenes at an emergency department in the lead-up to the death of a five-year-old boy, who was discharged from a hospital south of Brisbane while still visibly sick.

Hiyaan Kapil died in the early hours of Monday morning, after being sent home from the Logan hospital at about 10pm on Sunday night.