Inquest into deaths of two young men in 2020 has begun

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An Inquest has begun into the deaths of two young men in 2020 who sought help several times from Adelaide hospital emergency departments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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00:00 23-year-old Sajintha Bhadagodeghe sought help from the Royal Adelaide Hospital three times

00:08 after he started vomiting and coughing up blood.

00:11 He was repeatedly sent home from the emergency department, once with an order to take Panadol,

00:16 on the third occasion he was told to see his GP.

00:19 Reliving the days before her husband's death, Yolani Pereira told the inquest she thought

00:24 hospital staff would have taken his case more seriously, with a couple filming the blood

00:29 he was throwing up to help inform staff.

00:32 It was our first time in a hospital.

00:35 We were scared.

00:36 We had no confidence.

00:38 He was going with whatever they were saying.

00:41 Counsel assisting the coroner told the court Ms Pereira asked the triage nurse for her

00:45 husband to be admitted.

00:47 She told the nurse that her husband was fearing for his life and he had lost too much blood.

00:53 Her pleas for medical assistance for her husband went unheeded.

00:57 The court heard on the day he was turned away, Mr Bhadagodeghe collapsed and died at a radiology

01:03 clinic where he was undergoing a further scan.

01:06 The deputy state coroner will also examine the death of 38-year-old Hemanth Shada, who

01:10 died from pneumonia after presenting to the Royal Adelaide and Lyall McEwen hospitals.

01:16 Counsel assisting told the court two paramedics who picked up Mr Shada on two separate occasions

01:21 allegedly told his wife he was being overdramatic.

01:25 The ambulance officers accused her husband of creating drama and I quote "being naughty".

01:31 The court heard Mr Shada prevented his wife from calling an ambulance hours before his

01:36 death because of their distressing ambulance experience.

01:39 The inquest will hear from those paramedics later this month.

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