The parents of a young girls whose appendix burst and left her in agony as she waited eight hours for treatment at an emergency ward have urged more funding for hospitals to prevent a looming tragedy.
Annabelle and David Oates took their seven-year-old daughter Audrey to the Women s and Children s Hospital in March after their GP diagnosed her with acute appendicitis.
But they told reporters on Monday that she wasn t examined by a doctor for six hours and waited another two- and-a-half hours before an emergency operation was performed.
Annabelle (pictured left) and David Oates (pictured centre) took their seven-year-old daughter Audrey to the Women s and Children s Hospital in March after their GP diagnosed her with acute appendicitis
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