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Article: Mothers forced to send breast milk by mail
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- January 19, 2003
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Sick premature babies shunted around the country due to hospital
overcrowding and staff shortages
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Deidre Mussen
INCREASING numbers of vulnerable premature babies are being
shunted around the country because there is no room in hospitals.
One stretched Auckland hospital has even considered sending
newborns to Australia in its search for hospitals to take the 20
mothers and babies it is transferring each month.
Hospital staff say the transfers cause stress to families, put
babies' health at risk and can affect breastfeeding.
In one case, an Auckland mother had to courier her breast milk to
Wellington after her premature twins were transferred because of
hospital ...