Five years later, the Hutt Valley District Health Board has apologised to Johnson after a Health and Disability Commissioner report found a series of staff failures contributed to Piper’s injury. But Johnson still wants answers from a hospital where multiple babies have suffered preventable brain damage since her daughter’s birth.
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It’s been five years since twins Piper and Eva were born in Hutt Hospital. The DHB have just apologised for mistakes made at the birth, after an HDC report. “I’m just heartbroken, because this shouldn’t be happening. I can’t understand how they can’t see what they’re doing – there s babies dying, babies being injured, women being injured giving birth,” she says.