A toddler was refused a hospital bed before she became "floppy and blue" and died from a virus, an inquest has heard. Caitlin Cruz died from flu complications less than 24 hours after she arrived at a hospital in October 2016.
The three-year-old girl went home from a daycare in Sydney with a fever, and stayed at home for several days to recover. She was taken to a GP on October 21, but her condition worsened and she returned the next day.
But as Caitlin sat waiting on her father's lap at a Rhodes GP clinic, she "appeared to pass out and lose consciousness" and vomited onto her shirt, counsel assisting Maria Gerace said in an opening statement at the coroners court.
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