Expectant moms in central Queensland say they're residing in concern over the maternity disaster that is unfolding throughout the area.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles is intervening whereas the Premier is away, forcing Queensland Well being to behave.
Gladstone Hospital hasn't had a totally functioning maternity service for greater than six months however the well being service can have a brief reprieve with information of 1 short-term obstetrician.
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"One locum permits us to bolster the providers out there in Gladstone," Miles stated.
Expectant moms within the metropolis of greater than 60,000 folks have been instructed Rockhampton Hospital 110 kilometres away is the closest different exterior of deliberate cesareans at Gladstone on choose days.
Jemma Manwaring from Save Gladstone Maternity Ward stated the service is obtainable on "Monday and Friday solely".
"If there's an emergency, can we make notice to infants to have these incidents on a Monday and Friday please," she stated.
Rockhampton solely had one specialist obstetrician left over the Christmas break.
Miles intervened and requested the well being division and its minister sit down for talks, with plans to supply a further 4 obstetricians by the center of the yr.
"We're not coping with some rural outpost, we're coping with a significant regional metropolis," opposition chief David Crisafulli stated.
Andrea Williams lately moved to Gladstone together with her younger household and is anticipating one other child quickly.
"The strain, I used to be up all night time," Williams stated.
"I could not sleep, I wakened dreaming about it."
The extra employees will not be in place by the point her new bub arrives.
"It is simply unfathomable that it may be this sized city and never present such a fundamental care to the ladies," Williams stated.
Central Queensland Hospital and Well being Service will not reveal the precise variety of obstetricians presently working between the 2 hospitals.