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Article: Our baby's death at London hospital shames the NHS; COUPLE ATTACK 'THIRD WORLD' HEALTH SERVICE AFTER BIRTH GOES TRAGICALLY WRONG.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 17, 2005
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Byline: ED HARRIS
BRITAIN has been accused of having a third-world health service by a German couple whose baby died after the birth went catastrophically wrong.
Christoph Schwennicke and his wife Ulrike Weidner, who had moved to London from Berlin, spoke out after their son, Jacob, died three months after being born by emergency Caesarean in St George's hospital in Tooting.
The couple, who are now moving back to Germany with their daughter Jule, say the state of the health service in one of the richest countries in the world is a "disgrace and a shame".
Mr Schwennicke, 39, a journalist with a Munich paper who had been posted to ...