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a blood test to determine if it was safe to continue delivery or if a caesarean section was appropriate. The couple's pleas for an emergency caesarean section were also ignored. During the delivery, Jake Junior suffered skull fractures and a brain haemorrhage. According to a coroner, the subsequent caesarean section was performed 90 minutes too late. Livermore and Del-Giudice claim that staff at the
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American lawyer Peter Touche said his wife's death was "completely avoidable" and that "the picture is far bleaker than I had imagined and the catalogue of errors is just unbelievable." Touche pointed to a lack of basic medical attention and record keeping, delays in
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revealed that maternal mortality rates in private hospitals were five times higher than the national average. The paper reported that five mothers had died during or after childbirth at the Portland since the hospital's opening.
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