Another letter about our health system that The West Australian won't publish. But the painful truth is that there are families grieving as a result of the ineptitude of our administrators in @WAHealth. Sadly it will take more deaths before our politicians recognise the issue:
"Ashleigh Hunter died in December 2019. Aishwarya Aswath died in April 2021. Monika Mann died in May 2023. The WA Coroner has ruled in respect of the first two cases and has been scathing in her criticism of the health system in both those cases. In Monika Mann’s case it is now 7 months since her death and her husband and three children still have no decision from the Coroner’s office as to her cause of death. They also have nothing from our health system to indicate how or why she died.
It must be said however that the SAC 1 report (reconvened committee after I became involved in the case), indicates that there is a strong possibility that if Monika had been examined/scanned she might well have been saved and her children not be left without their mother to care for them.
These are the cases that I am aware of and that have resulted in deaths. I am also dealing with a host of other cases where the standard of care being administered to our state residents is far from what would be expected in a first world country. In fact it is probably fair to say that the care has been considerably worse than would be expected in some developing countries.
Yet, through this all, our Health Ministers at State and Federal level, continue to parrot the line that we have the “best” health system in the world. When Aishwarya’s Inquest decision was handed down, the Coroner said “It shouldn’t take the death of a beloved little girl for the Department of Health, and the Government, to stop and consider what more it can do, and how much more money it should spend to keep children safe when they visit our specialist children’s hospital.” It would seem that the deaths of Ashleigh and Monika are also sadly going to be in vain because it is still not going to elicit any change from the Health authorities and Minister in regard to our health system in general
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Suresh Rajan"
