澳洲公立医院新生儿夭折率比私立医院高三倍

A first five-star hotel maternity ward is so popular the program is set to be expanded in
Ashford Private Hospital.

据2009年2月16日《澳洲人报》报道，一份最新的研究报告显示，在澳洲公立医院出生的新生儿夭折率比私立医院要高出三倍。

BABIES die in public hospitals - during labour or shortly after birth - at three times the rate in private hospitals.

And women who give birth in public hospitals are more than twice as likely to suffer tearing, new research has found, while their babies are more than twice as likely to need resuscitation at birth.

Research leader Stephen Robson, of the Australian National University, said the findings, to be published in the Medical Journal of Australia today, contradicted the view that the increased rates of obstetric intervention in private hospitals were bad for women and their babies.