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Rural birth care ‘crisis’ looms amid staff shortages

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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.

Fly-in-fly-out locum doctors prop up two birthing units in a prosperous agricultural district in northern NSW.

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