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Luke Costin

REVEALED: Systemic hospital errors before woman died - The Real Truth

A woman died after a cap was placed on her tracheostomy tube and she was left unattended on a ward. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A NSW coroner says a hospital must address several matters urgently after several systemic errors led to a 49-year-old woman suffocating on a ward.

Shellharbour woman Andrea Lester died after a cap was placed on her tracheostomy tube and she was left unattended while on a ward in Wollongong Hospital.

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