Six-year-old dies after being sent home twice from Sydney Children's Hospital

A six-year-old has died after being sent home twice from the Sydney Children's Hospital.

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00:00The six-year-old girl first presented here to Sydney Children's Hospital in

00:06Randwick in Sydney's east on Monday. She was initially clinically assessed by

00:11medical staff before being discharged. We understand a short time later the

00:16girl's family returned her to the hospital. Medical staff assessed her

00:21again and diagnosed her with influenza before she was discharged again with

00:27what in a statement from Sydney Children's Hospital has been described as

00:30effectively an at-home care plan. Later she was taken to Northern Beaches

00:36Hospital where she tragically passed away on Tuesday. Now we've heard statements

00:42from both at the Sydney Children's Hospital Network as well as Northern

00:46Beaches Hospital. They have both agreed to take part in a joint review of the

00:52incident and have both offered the condolences to the family of the

00:56six-year-old child. We've also heard from St Luke's Grammar School in Dewite on

01:01Sydney's Northern Beaches where the six-year-old girl was a current

01:05kindergarten student. They've described her as being full of light and joy and

01:10have said that families who may be affected are now being offered grief

01:15counselling. New South Wales Health Minister Ryan Park has also weighed in.

01:20He's extended his condolences to the family describing the incident as

01:24devastating but at the same time he said that the parents of the child deserve

01:29answers. Now this will obviously head to a review by the New South Wales coroner

01:35which is standard practice for these sort of incidents but at the same time it

01:40will also spark a serious adverse event review or SEER which is really only

01:46reserved for the most serious clinical incidents.