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Article: HEALTH Caesareans on sale for $10,000
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- February 11, 2007
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PRIVATE HOSPITALS are offering caesareans for up to $10,000,
reflecting growing demand from what some call the "too posh to push"
brigade.
Auckland's MercyAscot Hospital started offering the service last
year.
It is the start of a new trend in which mothers can choose to have
their babies surgically, without having to cite medical reasons as
required in the public system.
Bookings for private caesareans at the Auckland hospital are made
for Friday mornings - when no other surgery is scheduled.
St George's Hospital in Christchurch also offers private
caesareans, charging about $10,000. But the only patients to use it
have been non-residents and the hospital has not done a caesarean on
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