Dead girl did not have flu

The little girl's grandfather, Athol Walden, said on Friday she had been turned away from the hospital because she was Aboriginal.

The girl, from Doomadgee, had been ill for days and was turned away from Doomadgee Hospital several times during the week before being admitted on Wednesday.

She died on Thursday, before her family could have her transferred to the larger Mount Isa Hospital.

Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young said the girl had tested negative to human swine influenza and seasonal flu.

Dr Young said the health department would conduct a "root-cause analysis into the death" and the case would be reviewed by the coroner.

"I extend my deepest sympathy to the little girl's family at this sad time," she said. "My thoughts are with her family and all who knew and loved her."

Dr Young said Queensland Health would supply indigenous communities with as much of the antiviral drug Tamiflu as they required.

Tamiflu stocks had been sent to cover 20 per cent of indigenous communities' populations.

"However, that is just the starting point," Dr Young said. "We will send as much as is needed."

Mr Walden last week said some doctors and nurses had "a bit of attitude towards Aboriginal people".

"If my little granddaughter was a white child she would have been flown out the first day she went to the hospital."