Grant and Naomi Day took their six-month-old Kyran to Shoalhaven Hospital on the NSW south coast in October 2013.
He was initially misdiagnosed, with doctor’s saying he just had a bad case of gastroenteritis, reports The Daily Telegraph.
But when he was still getting worse 20 hours later, they re-examined his and found a deadly bowel obstruction.
Doctors ordered Kyran be transferred to Sydney Children’s Hospital for emergency surgery, but he was then forced to wait for hours for an ambulance because paramedics wanted to have lunch before they made the 150km trip, an inquest has heard.
Four hours after the order to move Kyran was made, he finally left the hospital in an ambulance, but just one hour into the journey, he stopped breathing and the ambulance was diverted to Shellharbour Hospital so he could be resuscitated.
He was then airlifted to Sydney for surgery but had already suffered multiple cardiac arrests. The surgery was successful, but two days later he died when his life support system was switched off.
The inquest is investigating the conduct of Shoalhaven Hospital and its staff, the Newborn Emergency Transport Service and NSW Ambulance.
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