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Cheryl Goodenough

'Systems failed' in rheumatic heart disease deaths

A coroner has found systems failed three Indigenous women who died with rheumatic heart disease. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A coroner investigating the deaths of three Indigenous women with rheumatic heart disease has found health systems in a remote Queensland community failed.

The deaths within 18 months of one another sparked an inquest into what would otherwise be considered natural cause deaths, coroner Nerida Wilson said in her findings handed down in Cairns on Friday.

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