Georgia officials have disbanded a state committee that was responsible for investigating the deaths of pregnant women after internal reports detailing the preventable deaths of two women were leaked to the public.
"Confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outside individuals," Dr. Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of the state Department of Public Health, wrote in a letter addressed to members of the committee, obtained by ProPublica. "Even though this disclosure was investigated, the investigation was unable to uncover which individual(s) disclosed confidential information.
