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Health
By Hannah Walsh

Mackay Base Hospital investigates emergency care of children after button battery incident

The Mackay Base Hospital is facing criticism from concerned parents whose children ended up in induced comas. (ABC News: Chris Gillette)

The Mackay Base Hospital is investigating two cases of children presenting to its emergency department and ending up in induced comas. 

The hospital has been criticised by parents of the children for failing to detect a button battery in a one-year-old girl's throat and misdiagnosing pneumonia as gastro in a three-year-old girl.

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