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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Health

Young mother suffers miscarriage waiting 11 hours to access emergency department

NSW Ambulances queueing at the John Hunter Hospital to offload patients in November. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

A YOUNG mother having a miscarriage forced to wait more than 11 hours to access John Hunter Hospital's emergency department in a makeshift room with no bathroom despairs at her "dangerous" and "degrading" treatment.

The public submissions to NSW's impact of ambulance ramping and access block on the operation of hospital emergency departments parliamentary inquiry make for tough but important reading.

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