Baby with heart failure among thousands waiting on critical surgery in Victoria

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Baby with heart failure among thousands waiting on critical surgery in Victoria
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A three-month-old baby has had her critical heart surgery scheduled and cancelled four times in the last two weeks. 9News

A three-month-old baby has had her critical heart surgery scheduled and cancelled four times in the last two weeks.

Her wearied parents Brad and Jessica are from Tasmania and have been unable to take their baby girl home as she needs another surgery at the Royal Children's Hospital to give Amelia a bigger stent.Amelia Rehn was born with congenital heart failure in Melbourne and first had surgery to implant a stent at just two-days-old."We are waiting day by day and waiting to see when we can go home."Baby Amelia has joined them.

But the current surgery back-log is due to the thousands of healthcare workers home sick with COVID-19.

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