Published: March 13, 2019
Indigenous woman allowed to leave hospital after 34 minutes with two paracetamol and without seeing a doctor
A nursing expert has told a coronial inquest that Naomi Williams – a 27-year-old Wiradjuri woman who was six months’ pregnant when she died in 2016 from a treatable infection – should have been monitored for at least four hours.
In the early hours of New Year’s Day 2016, Williams presented to the emergency department of Tumut hospital with pain. Nurses allowed her to go home after 34 minutes with two paracetamol and no assessment from a doctor.
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