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Mackay Base Hospital midwives furious after senior staff who ignored complaints about patient safety remain employed

Mackay Base Hospital midwives are incensed senior staff members — who ignored for months their complaints about an obstetrician being a serious patient safety risk — are still working at the facility and have not been reprimanded.

A midwife told the ABC she desperately tried to protect her patients from the hospital's former director of obstetrics, George Campbell Du Toit, by scheduling elective caesareans and inductions of labour at times he was not working.

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