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Dr. James Eason led the liver transplant program at Methodist University Hospital. An extraordinary cache of internal records details deaths under his watch.
by Max Blau, photography by Lucy Garrett for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. This story was produced in partnership with MLK50: Justice Through Journalism and co-published with the Commercial Appeal. On a brisk morning in the winter of 2019, at a standing-room-only.
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Aswath and Praseetha Sasidharan knew something was not quite right with their daughter Aiswarya Aswath when they decided to take her to the emergency department of the Perth Children’s Hospital last week.
The couple have four children and Aiswarya was their second child.
“They knew Aiswarya wasn’t her normal self. Something was wrong,” family spokesperson and friend Ramesh Vijaya Kurup told SBS Malayalam.
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Aiswarya Aswath (7) was taken to Perth Children s Hospital s emergency on the Easter long weekend.
She was reportedly not attended by doctots for two hours and died.
WA Health Minister Roger Cook has pledged answers to questions from shocked community.