Forty-Eight Hours
That facility is a twenty-six-bed private hospital.
It is not a trauma centre and it is not a children’s hospital and it has no pediatric intensive care and it sees, on average, one pediatric death every three or four years.
The child arrived by private vehicle at 4:41 in the morning, not by ambulance, which is the first thing, and which meant no paramedic assessment existed anywhere.
Resuscitation was attempted by a night-shift physician who had been on for eleven hours and who is, by every account including mine, entirely competent and who has not been criticized by anybody.