No more dangerous dashes, Wānaka birthing clinic to open next year
From reporter Olivia Caldwell:
After years of frightening stories of mums giving birth on the side of the road or on office floors, Wānaka will finally get a birthing unit.
Te Whatu Ora Southern, formerly the Southland District Health Board, has purchased a property to house a primary birthing unit in Wānaka, which will have one birthing room and three postnatal stay rooms.
The news of the new facility, due to open next year, comes after years of lobbying from mothers worried about being put in dangerous birth situations. In the past, local women have had to give birth on the side of the road, or had last-minute helicopter rides to Dunedin Hospital.
Read more here.
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