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#sepsis

She died days later at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital, after her body went into septic shock from a Group A Streptococcus infection. Her family believes medical staff at Credit Valley Hospital didn't act quickly enough when Sidhu first presented signs of sepsis even ignoring pleas from the family and that her death may have been preventable if life-saving efforts were made sooner.

The recognition of sepsis remains an urgent and persistent safety risk, despite previous reports highlighting the large number of deaths it causes when diagnosed too late.