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Mom's horror as little girl is kicked out of Gladstone Hospital with a concussion from Covid

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The mother of a three-year-old toddler who was denied treatment for a serious concussion because she tested positive for Covid has doubled her criticism of the hospital on breakfast television. Deborah Reeves appeared on the Today show on Friday to recall the traumatic experience of taking her daughter Wynta to Gladstone Hospital in central Queensland around noon on Sunday after she fell from a kitchen bar stool and banged her head with force. As Reeves told Daily Mail Australia yesterday, upon arriving at the hospital, Wynta did not receive treatment for his head injury. Instead, the distressed toddler was forced to undergo two Covid tests. ‘I’m horrified. I think we’re here because of a head injury, not because of Covid,” Reeves told Today. Three-year-old Wynta (pictured the day after she fell) was discharged without treatment from Gladstone Hospital after falling from a kitchen bar stool and suffering a concussion. Wynta was first given a rapid antigen test, which came