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More staff, funding allocated to Townsville maternal unit after damning review

Townsville Hospital and Health Service has accepted all 11 recommendations from Dr Gardener's review. (ABC News: Darryl Torpy)

Townsville Hospital will spend $2.8 million a year to fix its under-funded and under-resourced high-risk maternity unit.

The overloaded Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit is the only public high-risk maternity service outside of the south-east corner of Queensland.

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