Mother Seeks Answers in Sisters' Tragic Deaths

0:00It's April 20th, I'm Cory with the story and this is Sydney News Today, your AI-powered local news. Two close sisters from Dubbo, New South Wales, Jessica and Caroline Hengen died within months of each other, leaving their mom Cheryl Weber and nine. Grandkids devastated. Caroline, 47, passed from a heart attack last March. Her younger sister Jessica, 35, got a wake up call but soon faced her own health scare with chronic headaches. Doctors doctor ordered an MRI that spotted a brain aneurysm and the report urged a specialist referral, but it never happened. She kept going with life, even drinking to cope with grief, until she collapsed at a family event on July 30th at a local hotel. Weber rushed to the scene, begging not to lose another daughter, but Jessica suffered a ruptured aneurysm and massive stroke. Paramedics rushed her to Dubbo Bay's hospital, where docs tried to transfer her to Sydney, but bad weather and a full ICU stopped it. They turned off life support the next morning at 9.30 and she was gone.

1:02Now Weber is taking the Dubbo Aboriginal Medical Service to New South Wales Supreme Court this week to get her daughter's records, especially to check. If Jessica got that referral, the service faces heat from past resourcing complaints and a federal audit still under review. This family's pain runs deep with grandkids visiting graves at night, missing their moms. Weber just wants true for them, shining light on what went wrong, so no one else suffers the same heartbreak.