Health authorities have launched a review into a "cluster" of baby deaths at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital after a parliamentary committee heard a lack of infant heart and life support services was to blame.
Dr Cusack said between six and 10 babies with significant heart abnormalities were usually born in SA each year, and that the deaths needed to be investigated. "Had we provided the very best available care for those children and their families? And what are the lessons learnt?" Labor spokesperson Chris Picton said a business case, prepared by doctors last year, also claimed the lack of cardiac surgery had contributed to at least one avoidable death and several near misses at the time.
The document warns of "avoidable mortality" as a result of the lack of an ECMO machine service there, and that "at least one avoidable death has occurred".
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Meanwhile SkyNewsAust have somehow managed to blame this on DanielAndrewsMP and Victoria. Appalling. I hope SA get the facilities and doctors they clearly need to stop more preventable deaths.
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