Cabrini Hospital upgrades emergency-call system after mother's cry for help goes unheard

By Beau Donelly
July 25 2016 - 12:01am
Stephanie and Thomas David at home with daughter Luella. Photo: Paul Jeffers
Stephanie and Thomas David at home with daughter Luella. Photo: Paul Jeffers
Ms David was recovering from a caesarean and epidural and was unable to stand up to help her newborn daughter.  Photo: Paul Jeffers
Ms David was recovering from a caesarean and epidural and was unable to stand up to help her newborn daughter. Photo: Paul Jeffers

One of Melbourne's top private hospitals has upgraded its emergency nurse-paging system after staff failed to respond to a bedridden mother whose newborn baby had stopped breathing.

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