Daughter mourns mum as coroner lashes Launceston General Hospital following 71yo's death while ramped
ABCIn short: A coroner has blasted Launceston General Hospital over the death of a woman, writing her illness was "underestimated in the extreme" and that she spent eight hours with paramedics as "no bed available for her" A coroner has blasted Launceston General Hospital over the death of a woman, writing her illness was "underestimated in the extreme" and that she spent eight hours with paramedics as "no bed available for her" What's next? The coroner wrote he is "pessimistic" about future improvements at the hospital, but Tasmania's health service says recommendations "will be implemented within the relevant time frames" The daughter of a woman who died while being ramped at Tasmania's second-largest hospital says it took her weeks to bring herself to read the coronial report, knowing what it would contain. The coroner wrote there were "simply too many people requiring medical care from the emergency department at the time of Mrs Pedler's arrival". "There were simply too many people requiring medical care from the emergency department at the time of Mrs Pedler's arrival," the coroner said.
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