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Maternity is at crisis point, with a shortage of 200 midwives in hospitals nationwide. Kirsten Van Newtown started a petition for the government to start taking it seriously after her experience with a high risk pregnancy at Wellington hospital.
Year after year, babies are being born into a dangerously under-resourced maternity system. With hospital wards nationwide short 200 midwives and women having to fight for basic care, the minister previously in charge of the sector questions the political will to fix the problem. National Correspondent Michelle Duff investigates.
Hours after Kelly ​gave birth by emergency c-section, she was ordered to get up and change her own maternity pad. ....

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