The Mackay Base Hospital is investigating two cases of children presenting to its emergency department and ending up in induced comas, including a one-year-old girl who swallowed a button battery.
Little Amity s parents Daniel Buchanan and Jemma Gultzow had feared the worst when she started vomiting and choking on Monday afternoon. She s since woken from her coma.
A Queensland hospital has been accused of failing to detect a battery lodged in a one-year-old girl s throat, leaving her in an induced coma suffering from internal burns to her oesophagus.