An inquest into the deaths of six young people at music festivals found the only doctor at Central Coast festival ‘Lost Paradise’ was not ‘equipped’ to treat drug overdoses.
Dr Krishna Sura treated festival-goer Joshua Tram when he was brought into the medical tent before becoming fatally ill, and told the coronial inquest he thought there was a struggle to find doctors for the event.
Dr Sura says he was also unable to incubate critically ill patients and was told by the head of Event Medical Services, Mike Hammond, that he wouldn’t need to as intensive care paramedics were on site.