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Stephanie Gardiner

A 10-hour trip for a blood test amid rural health gaps

A state parliamentary inquiry has examined fertility care and assisted reproductive treatment. (Jane Dempster/AAP PHOTOS)

A rural mother has to travel six hours interstate every fortnight as she expands her family, an emotional quest that has likely cost her more than $100,000.

Sophie Fletcher, a farmer and mother-of-two from Walcha, in northern NSW, has also taken several 10-hour round trips just to get guaranteed same-day turnaround on blood tests for fertility treatment.

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