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Mother and Child Mortality Review

Ellie Toyoshima’s death was one of 71 potentially avoidable neonatal deaths caused by lack of oxygen to the brain during birth that occurred in New Zealand between 2013 and 2017. The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee’s latest report finds “personnel factors”

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