Published: September 18, 2018
Inquest into death of Indigenous woman from sepsis hears nurse can’t explain why temperature was not taken a second time
A nurse who attended Naomi Williams at Tumut hospital on the day she died had not undertaken training necessary to help identify sepsis in pregnant women, and admitted she had not done a full assessment of Williams before allowing her to go home, a coroner’s court heard on Tuesday.
Williams, a 27-year-old Wiradjuri woman who was six months pregnant with her first child, died from sepsis associated with the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, a serious infection that is treatable with antibiotics.
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