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Parents Advocate for Reform Following Toddler’s ‘Avoidable’ Death in Hospital
@Source: internewscast.com
Almost three years after their toddler’s “preventable” death in hospital, her family wants to light a fire of change.
Pippa Mae White died in June, 2022, weeks before her third birthday, after being transferred to Orange Hospital in the NSW central west.
Annah White, the mother, addressed the media outside the NSW Coroners Court located in Sydney’s west today. This took place as the inquest into her daughter’s unfortunate demise due to sepsis continued.
Photograph shows Brock and Annah White who lost their two-year-old daughter Pippa after being released from the Emergency Department in Cowra with Sepsis. She died in Orange hospital. Photograph taken Thursday 21st May 2025. Photograph by Dean Sewell / The Sydney Morning Herald(Dean Sewell)
Pippa’s grandmother Marianne Stonestreet said she felt “broken and angry” and blamed the healthcare system for failing a critically unwell child.
“Annah tried – she tried to get help, she knew something was wrong,” Ms Stonestreet told the court.
“No one listened to her, no one took her seriously and because of that Pippa died.”
Pippa’s father Brock spoke of how he first turned to drinking to numb the pain and then took up playing rugby league because he “needed to be hurt”.
“I walk around in a shell of my former self, broken,” he said.
The courtroom was packed with Pippa’s family and friends who travelled to Sydney for the inquest.
Outside court, Ms White described them as “Pip’s army”.
“We are all equally broken, shattered,” she said.
“A life sentence – one without the chance of parole – that’s what life is like for grieving families.”
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