A young mother-of-two with a sore back died after waiting nine hours for emergency surgery leaving her shattered family to fight for answers from the hospital.
Kya Davey, 33, was doing exercises on the floor of her home when she hurt her back and went to Shellharbour Hospital, two hours south of Sydney, for treatment just before 2pm in January.
Within two hours, doctors discovered she had a tear in her aorta, a life-threatening condition, and acknowledged she would need to go to Wollongong Hospital, just 28 minutes away, for the operation.
But her husband Daniel Davey, 33, and her mother Maria Markulrc said it was another seven hours before Kya got that surgery and the operation was not completed until 11 hours after she had first presented at Shellharbour Hospital.
