‘Systems Failed’ in Australian Rheumatic Heart Disease Deaths

‘Systems Failed’ in Australian Rheumatic Heart Disease Deaths
An Aboriginal flag is held aloft during a Black Lives Matter protest to express solidarity with U.S. protesters and demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody in Perth, Australia, on June 13, 2020. Trevor Collens/AFP via Getty Images
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A coroner investigating the deaths of three Indigenous women with rheumatic heart disease has found health systems in a remote Queensland community failed.

The deaths within 18 months of one another sparked an inquest into what would otherwise be considered natural cause deaths, coroner Nerida Wilson said in her findings handed down in Cairns on June 30.

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