A grieving mother watched her toddler die in front of her after pleading with doctors to save the three-year-old's life for days.

"I will never forget the desperate attempts to resuscitate her tiny body," Miranda Jowett said on Thursday, between tears.

"Parents know when their child is gravely ill. I urge doctors to set aside assumptions and truly listen to parents."

Ms Jowett took her daughter, Dio Kemp, to Melbourne's Monash Medical Centre with a rash or fever four times and twice to a family GP, before she died from sepsis in November 2019.

But medical professionals told her the toddler, who had Down syndrome and was non-verbal, had a virus or fever, should be given pain medication and to wait for the child's fever to break.

"Children with an intellectual disability must be given t

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