00:00 Thea Flaskett lived for just four hours.
00:05 It's the most amazing thing to ever lay your eyes on.
00:10 Red hair, these bright blue eyes, she was quite big.
00:14 I think she would have been the sassiest little girl.
00:17 In September, Meg Flaskett was admitted to Redcliffe Hospital
00:20 where Thea was born.
00:22 When Bub finally was delivered, she didn't cry.
00:26 She had the cord around her neck.
00:28 The new mum says it was removed and oxygen was required.
00:32 One of the midwives went to put it on and they were like,
00:35 "This one's empty, we need to change it."
00:37 And then there was communication back and forth with,
00:40 "Well, where is one? How do we do it?"
00:42 In terms of the tank, what we know is at some stage
00:45 the tank became empty and it was changed
00:47 and oxygen was given to the baby.
00:49 Holding my finger the whole time and then it just all plummeted.
00:53 The newborn was going to be taken to the martyr in Brisbane,
00:56 but died.
00:57 I just held on to her and I cried.
01:00 Metro North Hospital and Health Service says
01:03 a full clinical review is underway.
01:06 The health ombudsman and the coroner are also investigating.
01:10 It's a very sad story and Meg came to my election office
01:16 during last week and shared it with us
01:19 and we've been doing our best to support her.
01:22 I feel for my hard-working frontline nurses and doctors
01:26 and paramedics who are trying to work in a system that is broken.
01:29 The couple is meeting with the Health Minister on Tuesday.
01:32 The hospital says interim findings indicate the ward
01:35 was fully stocked with oxygen supplies and staff were trained.
01:40 The medical director isn't admitting to any mistakes.
01:43 No, we don't.
01:45 Had she been met with the oxygen, even in those first eight minutes
01:50 when they were saying that she was OK,
01:52 I think she would have had a much better chance.
01:55 The couple wants to have another child.
01:58 I do hope one day that Theo sends us a sibling.
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