27/12/2024
I’m not sure how many people are aware of how our maternity services are being massively downgraded in mid January 2025 but any mothers needing emergency cesarean surgery or high risk births or inductions will have to travel to Tauranga to have their labour and delivery. The idea makes me feel sick. My own daughter was an emergency cesarean and without the amazing staff and the ability to have surgery right then and there at Whakatane hospital, my daughter and I may not have made it.
Please, we all have, or know mothers and children. Most of us know someone going through or having gone through pregnancy and birth. We all need help and this devastating news to our community is going to have dire consequences.
Please sign the petition and hopefully we can make positive change by spreading the word.
Thank you in advance.
Stop the downgrade of Whakatāne Hospital Maternity Services