Tag: midwives
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‘Kick in the guts’: Nurses and midwives march on SA parliament
Nurses and midwives are marching from the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in North Adelaide, while others will take to the streets from the Royal Adelaide Hospital – nurses from regional and suburban hospitals will be bussed into the city. The healthcare workers are fed up with government negotiations, including yesterday’s pay offer rally organisers claimed…
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Coroner finds death of baby girl after home water birth was preventable
The baby was delivered at her mother’s Gold Coast home on January 10, 2018, by two midwives who admitted to falsifying records after the birth. The baby, Zamia Ely-Smith, was unresponsive, “pale and floppy” at birth, with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, coroner Jane Bentley found in a report handed down on Friday.…