Family members of five-year-old Rozalia Spadafora have broken down in court at the start of an inquiry into the girl's death at the Canberra hospital last year. Rozalia died as she was being prepared to be taken to Sydney for treatment because there was no specialist to treat her in Canberra.
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00:00 An energetic pocket rocket is how Rosalia Spadafora's mother Katrina described her.
00:07 But in July last year, just a day after her fifth birthday, she died of myocarditis, a
00:13 rare inflammation of the heart.
00:16 Today the coroner's court heard by the time Rosalia was being prepared for travel, she
00:21 was not stable enough to be transferred to Sydney.
00:24 Medical assisting the coroner, Michael Fordham, said medical experts will tell the inquiry
00:30 that if the condition had been diagnosed when it first became apparent up to 12 hours earlier,
00:36 she may well have survived.
00:38 Mr Fordham also noted important test results were missed and poor coordination between
00:44 staff led to the delay.
00:47 Rosalia's mother told the hearing today by the time she was taken to hospital, her daughter
00:52 was unable to walk.
00:54 Members of Rosalia Spadafora's family have packed out the coroner's court today where
00:59 some were overcome as the details of the delays in her treatment were revealed.
01:05 The inquiry will continue for the rest of the week and will resume in December.
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