A two-year-old girl could be required to recover from open-heart surgery in hotel quarantine — against the wishes of her doctors — because the Queensland Government refuses to grant her family an exemption.
Luella Gilliland underwent the surgery, for the second time in her life, at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney last week.
The life-saving operation could not be delayed and was already in motion when Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Labor Government closed the border to people who had visited New South Wales.
“She’s having night terrors, she’s still very emotional, obviously asking, ‘When can we go home?'” her mother Laurren Gilliland told the ABC.
“She’s reached her coping abilities for a toddler who has just gone through a traumatic event such as open-heart surgery.”
Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/qld-gov-denies-toddler-home-isolation-heart-surgery-coronavirus/12584354
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