The father of the toddler fighting for her life after being trapped inside a minivan for hours has shared heart-breaking details of vivacious daughter’s grave condition.
Shane Austin said his three-year-old Nevaeh has a failing kidney and needed a deep brain scan after being locked inside the bus outside the Le Smileys Early Learning Centre at Gracemere, near Rockhampton.
Little Nevaeh was rushed to Rockhampton Hospital after being found unconscious and revived by paramedics just before 3pm on Wednesday.
A senior Queensland politician has vowed an inquiry into the horrific incident will be launched as questions begin to be asked about how daycare centre staff didn’t notice the girl was missing.
The girl was located on a bus out the front of a school on Lucas Street [and] was transported in a critical condition to Rockhampton Hospital,’ Queensland Ambulance said on social media.
The girl was found ‘unresponsive’, the ambulance service’s Central Region operations manager Jason Thompson told media on Wednesday afternoon.
Mr Thompson described the situation as ‘traumatic’ for crews who treated her and admitted he had ‘goosebumps’ talking about it.