A prison doctor has highlighted a shortage of medical staff at a facility where a disabled inmate died after suffering an epileptic seizure.

The doctor gave evidence on Friday at a coronial inquest into the death in custody of Wayne Hunt at Darwin Correctional Centre on August 29, 2024.

She also raised concerns a surge in prisoner numbers and shortages of prison guards had made the prison less safe for detainees and a trying place to work.

The inquest has been told Mr Hunt became combative after his seizure and struggled against prison guards who roughly handled him, pinning him down on a mattress, handcuffing him and putting him in a spit hood.

He was bundled off in a wheelchair to the medical unit but instead of being given a full medical check, he was left naked on the floor of an "

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