A Perth family is considering suing the state government after their five-year-old girl was allegedly left partially blind in one eye from an infection following a visit to the bacteria-plagued Elizabeth Quay water park.
Preschooler Chelsea Fawcett was hospitalised after a visit to the water park when she developed a serious eye infection.
Doctors have now told her family Chelsea is partially blind in one eye and it is unknown if her sight will return to normal.
The water park remains closed indefinitely after the routine sampling found pseudomonas-type bacteria, which can cause skin rashes or ear and eye infections, in the water spray.
It had been closed, and then briefly reopened before the indefinite closure.
Chelsea's mum Jannah Fawcett said she just wanted to take her daughter to see the new park and have fun but now she may be left with a lifetime disability.
"It has been an awful experience with Chelsea in hospital and now she has to wear an eye patch and may never get her normal sight back," she said
Slater and Gordon lawyer Alex Illich said the firm was investigating a claim on behalf of Chelsea Fawcett against the state government as the operator of the water park.
