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婴儿死于细菌性脑膜炎
抗菌素有可能救活他
父母要求全面调查死亡原因
Elijah Slavkovic悲痛的父母要求答案：奔波了1500公里， 历经33个小时的旅途，走了5家医院最后换来的是孩子的死亡。
3月大的Melbourne男婴和全家在NSW北岸探亲时患病。 如果在发病几小时内使用抗菌素， 孩子有可能得救。
然而他被NSW健康系统转来转去的经过了5家医院：Pambula, Bega, Canberra和Sydney 最终送到Melbourne皇家儿童医院，
6周后他死于细菌性脑膜炎。
他的激度悲伤的父母到目前任沉浸于失去儿子的悲痛中无法自拔。
因小Elijah Slavkovic 的事故是起自纽省和终至于维省， 他的案例在两省内都没有死因裁判官报告。 在被Herald Sun报要求下，维省的死因裁判官承诺如孩子的父母要求会作尸检报告。
Why did our baby Elijah Slavkovic have to die?
* Baby dies of bacterial meningitis
* Antibiotics might have save him
* Parents want death fully investigated
THE grieving parents of Elijah Slavkovic are demanding answers about a bungled 1500km, 33-hour journey through five hospitals that contributed to his death.
The three-month-old Melbourne baby became ill while on a family holiday on the NSW South Coast last year, but he might have been saved if given antibiotics within hours of becoming ill.
Instead, he was passed around the NSW health system for 33 hours through hospitals in Pambula, Bega, Canberra and Sydney before finally being flown to Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital, where he died six weeks later from bacterial meningitis.
His distraught parents, Bobby Slavkovic and Sandra Bernobic, are still battling to come to terms with the loss of their son.
They are fighting to have his death investigated by Victorian and NSW coroners and the NSW Government.
"I feel that he was robbed of a chance," Ms Bernobic said.
"He lost six hours of treatment and in a small baby that could have made all the difference, but he was never given the chance.
"I want to know why they failed Elijah. Why he wasn't given antibiotics. I need someone to tell me why he wasn't given the help he needed when he first went to hospital.
"We still wake up some nights terrified and worrying about him. I just need somebody to say sorry - not to me, but to Elijah."
After he became ill in April last year, Elijah was taken to Pambula Hospital.
It does not have paediatric care, so he was transferred to Bega Hospital, which also has no paediatric facilities.
Ms Bernobic says Bega doctors told her that Elijah was not sick and only needed burping.
As he deteriorated, they sent him to Canberra, even though they had been told the hospital did not have a paediatric intensive care unit.
Elijah was finally given antibiotics more than six hours after arriving at his first hospital.
In Canberra he had to be resuscitated and placed on a ventilator before being flown to Sydney Children's Hospital.
Medical records from the specialist Sydney hospital indicate despair that Elijah had not received antibiotics sooner, and by then he was too sick to be saved.
Elijah was flown to Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital for his final care so his distraught parents could be closer to home.
Mr Slavkovic said staff at the Sydney and Melbourne hospitals did everything they could to help Elijah as well as comfort them.
But he will never be able to understand why his son was sent around NSW instead of going directly to the specialist hospitals.
"I pleaded with them to send him to Melbourne or Sydney," he said.
"If I had known what those hospitals were like, I would have jumped in the car and driven to Melbourne and he still would have got antibiotics sooner."
Because failures in Elijah's care took place in NSW, but he died in Victoria, the matter was not reported to either state's coroners.
After being told of the details by the Herald Sun yesterday, the Victorian coroner's office said it would examine the case if asked by Elijah's parents.
Medical Error Action Group spokeswoman Lorraine Long said it was outrageous that despite the damning findings in a report by NSW health authorities, the case was not referred to the coroner.
Nine recommendations from the NSW probe have been implemented to make sure the same debacle doesn't happen again.
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