I'm not sure if off topic, please delete if so: I am Australian,

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I'm not sure if off topic, please delete if so:

I am Australian, my question is a legal one/

My dad was a Vietnam veteran, he had a cancer removed from his body, this later developed into an abscess.

For some reason after having the abscess drained, he died a few minutes after being operated on due to blood loss.


There is an investigation into his death, however my mum is not eligible for war widows payments as he was recently switched to low blood pressure medication, and was recognized as having hypertension due to service, so bleeding out is not counted as related to service due to his recent med change. The coroner has confirmed it will not be due to blood pressure, but we are waiting for the full investigations report.
Our family is very poor, so I want to consider the financial implications of perusing a case against the health department, soley due to my mothers ineligibility to the widow pension.

If the case is unsuccessful we will only be further in the red and my mu is not able to perform most labor.


What would you anons do? Is it worth chasing up? My dad was 67, average life span would have given him +10 years.
It is clear he wasn't a priority and the proper staff were not monitoring his conditions after the operation.

Cheers