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Women's and Children's Hospital cochlear implant bungle left Aspasia and Amelia to 'suffer in silence'

Aspasia Paspaliaris, pictured with daughter Amelia, says she no longer has "full faith" in the Women's and Children's Hospital. (ABC News: Claire Campbell)

A mother whose nine-year-old daughter's cochlear implant was wrongly programmed at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide says her issues with the hospital's audiology department date back years and include misdiagnoses and delayed treatments.

The compensation bill for South Australia's cochlear implant "scandal" is tipped to extend into the millions but many of the families affected just want answers.

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