Hundreds of preventable disability deaths

By Megan Neil
Updated February 20 2020 - 2:03pm, first published 1:59pm
Disability royal commission chair Ronald Sackville has heard many preventable deaths are occurring.
Disability royal commission chair Ronald Sackville has heard many preventable deaths are occurring.

About 400 Australian adults with intellectual disability are dying each year from potentially avoidable causes, a royal commission has been told.

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