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Obstetrics 30 June 2025

Remote FNQ hospital celebrates one year of birthing local babies

The Palm Cockatoo Midwifery Group Practice (MGP) at Weipa Hospital, Cape York Peninsula, has assisted local women to give birth locally rather than travelling 800 km to Cairns. The group wants to make a culturally safe space so that more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women can give birth in the Western Cape.

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