Sky News host Amanda Stoker says Rockhampton’s maternity ward is “bursting at the seams” as Queensland is suffering a maternity services crisis.
Her comments come as this week marks 250 days since Queensland Labor cut off maternity services in Gladstone, which holds a population of 30,000.
“When the baby is on the way, you need to travel over 100 kilometres up the Bruce Highway and hope that he or she doesn’t arrive too quickly,” Ms Stoker said. “Of course, in central Queensland most people live much further away either on properties or with other children to care for, and remote locations from extended family means that relocating to Rocky weeks before baby is due just isn’t an option.
“Queensland may well be right now the one place in the developed world where the danger to the health of mothers and babies during childbirth is on the rise and that’s pretty appalling.”
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