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HEALTH AND MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE LAW AUSTRALIA
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Rural Health- NEWS
20.02.07
Bodies disgrace: GP shortage blamed
08.06.06
Dead baby born at roadside after hospital turns parents away (QLD) A FARMHAND was forced to deliver his dead baby in a car beside the road after his wife - having her first child - was turned away from their local hospital and told to drive to another facility three hours away. An investigation has been ordered into why 34-week pregnant Sharon Walker, 35, was not provided with an ambulance for the 270km journey from Emerald to Rockhampton, in central Queensland, and why she was turned away when the hospital knew she was in labour.
The examining doctor had warned her that it would probably be a breech birth because the baby had turned in the womb. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19400801-601,00.html
05.06.06
Fears over unqualified staff treating cancer patients THE lives of pregnant women and cancer sufferers in country Australia are being jeopardised because of specialist shortages in rural hospitals. A Four Corners report, to be aired tonight on ABC TV, reveals research by the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia which shows that more than a third of country hospitals providing chemotherapy allow unqualified medical staff to treat cancer patients.
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