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Health
Stephanie Gardiner

Rural birth care 'crisis' looms amid staff shortages

Poor rural maternity services are forcing women to travel hundreds of kilometres for care. (Tracey Nearmy/AAP PHOTOS)

One rural birthing unit "teeters on the brink" and goes from "one disaster to the next" due to severe staff shortages.

Another maternity service in a farming town of 15,000 closed four years after opening its doors, forcing specialists and medical workers out of town.

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