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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
James McNeill

Parents' hell as sick baby stuck in Chinese hospital thousands of miles from home

A pair of new parents are desperately trying to get their daughter back home to the UK so that she can receive specialist treatment.

Matthew Melia from Bromborough and his wife DanDan are trying to raise £25,000 so they can bring their daughter home to the UK after she was born prematurely. The couple, who live in Shenzhen, China had expected their children to be born this month but due to complications during pregnancy, DanDan gave birth to daughters Mia and Scarlett via caesarean section on May 3.

Scarlett and Mia were transferred to a hospital in Guangzhou, nearly 100 miles from where Matthew and DanDan live. Once there, they received CT scans which showed major problems for both babies.

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