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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Gabriel Fowler

7yo Memphis turned away from Cessnock Hospital: 'We don't treat kids'

Memphis Sharp, aged 7, being treated in Maitland Hospital, after being turned away from Cessnock Hospital, and before being transferred to John Hunter. Pictures supplied.

THE family of a seven-year-old boy who was taken to Cessnock Hospital only to be turned away has received an apology.

The boy, Memphis Sharp, who lives with his mother and sister at North Rothbury, was in a bad way when he arrived at Cessnock Hospital's emergency department about 9am on August 26.

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