The findings from the Inquiry into the death of First Nations man Ricky \u201cDougie\u201d Hampson Junior were released this week. Hampson died in 2021 after presenting to Dubbo Base Hospital with \u201c10 out of 10\u201d pain. The Inquiry heard that after spending 19 hours at the hospital he was misdiagnosed before being sent home without any further investigation, where he shortly passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The findings, delivered by Deputy State Coroner Erin Kennedy now show that Dougie\u2019s death was entirely \u201cpreventable\u201d and the inquest made several recommendations, including that the doctor who treated Hampson should be referred to the NSW Healthcare Watchdog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens MP and spokesperson for First Nations Justice Sue Higginson<\/strong> said, \u201cA small but significant piece of justice has finally been won for Dougie and his family this week. These findings can never bring Dougie back, but they can drive reform to rid the racism within the health care system, which underscored his death, save the lives of other First Nations people and give peace of mind to his family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDougie went to hospital in agony and instead of being treated as he presented, he was treated with the cognitive bias, racism and negligence that First Nations people so often face in the state\u2019s systems,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe brutal cruelty of the state\u2019s systems continued when Dougie\u2019s family had to engage in tireless advocacy, over 3 years, including visits to Parliament, pleas through the media, legal representation and a 13 and a half thousand signature petition calling for the inquest that has now made these findings. They should never have had to fight so hard, or so long for this justice, but they did and we must all thank them for doing so,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe state\u2019s systems continue to fail First Nations people. We wonder why the gap is not closing. Urgent reforms must be introduced and not just at Dubbo Hospital or the Western NSW LHD. Culturally appropriate care must be front and centre going forward. A colour blind approach is one that fails First Nations people just as it failed Dougie,\u201d Ms Higginson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The findings from the Inquiry into the death of First Nations man Ricky \u201cDougie\u201d Hampson Junior were released this week. Hampson died in 2021 after presenting to Dubbo Base Hospital with \u201c10 out of 10\u201d pain. The Inquiry heard that after spending 19 hours at the hospital he was misdiagnosed before being sent home without … Continue reading “Inquest finds death of First Nations man \u2018preventable\u2019 as Doctor is referred for investigation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28596,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28595\/revisions\/28596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}