An inquest into the 2017 death of a five-year-old boy who choked on a nectarine stone in an Adelaide classroom urges changes to South Australia's first-aid protocols in schools, including that all teachers hold up-to-date qualifications.
Lucas Latouche Mazzei died in 2017 after choking on a nectarine stone in a school classroomIt urged the education department to review policies for "sharing information" about students with medical conditions
The boy's mother, Daniela Mazzei, made an emotional statement to the media outside the South Australian Coroners Court,She said Lucas's death "could have been prevented". In response, Education Minister Blair Boyer said he and the department were "prepared to sit down and offer my apologies, and our apologies face to face" with Lucas's parents.
"We talk about him to his siblings but our grief will always be with us. His death could have been prevented."On the day he died, Lucas's classmates had gone to a science lesson, but he was left behind because he was deemed at risk of putting dangerous substances into his mouth due to his developmental delays.
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