‘We’ve Failed in the Worst Way’: NSW Health Minister on Toddler’s Cardiac Arrest Death

The hospital offered its deepest condolences to the family of a two-year-old who died at the Northern Beaches Hospital.

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NSW Health Minister Ryan Park has admitted the health system has failed the family of a young child who died at Northern Beaches Hospital last year.

Two-year-old Joe Massa suffered a cardiac arrest after waiting three hours for help in the emergency department. Staff eventually performed CPR, but it was too late—he had already suffered irreversible brain damage.