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Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Medical bungle at Royal Women's Hospital kills healthy fetus

A HEALTHY 32-week-old fetus was accidentally terminated in a botched procedure at the Royal Women's Hospital. 
 
A Victorian mother, pregnant with twin boys she had already named, had made the agonising decision to abort one of the babies on doctors' advice, the Herald Sun reported.

She had been told that one twin had a congenital heart defect that would require years of operations, if he survived at all.

An ultrasound clinician had checked the healthy baby, who was in a separate sac to the sick baby, before the termination.

But just after 2.30pm on Tuesday the wrong baby was injected, terminating the healthy pregnancy.    Read Here

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