Two-year-old’s sepsis death in hospital was ‘totally avoidable’, grieving parents tell NSW inquest

Pippa White’s parents will ‘spend the rest of our lives advocating to stop this from ever happening again’, coroner’s court hears

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The parents of a two-year-old girl who died of septic shock after she was misdiagnosed by doctors in regional New South Wales believe her death was “totally avoidable”, an inquest has heard.

Pippa Mae White died on 13 June 2022, two months before her third birthday, after doctors at the hospitals in Cowra and Orange assumed she had an acute viral illness, rather than the bacterial infection that resulted in her death.

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