Campaigners have protested as women said to be 'extremely worried' by Causeway Hospital maternity move
A protest has been held in Coleraine against the decision that births will no longer take place at Causeway Hospital.
"As a trust providing health and social care services in our community, it is important that we best serve the changing demographic of the area's population which is why we have made significant investment in enhancing our ambulatory and frailty care services at Causeway Hospital," it said. "People, specifically people in the rural community, see this as stripping of services, services that they have every bit as much right to as anybody else," she said."As of midnight tomorrow there will no longer be a facility here at Causeway Hospital to give birth.
"We can't tell a baby that's on the way 'can you just give me another 50 minutes while I drive up the road'," she said.Another woman, Jade Best, said her experiences of giving birth to her two children at Causeway hospital had been "fantastic"."The water birth suite is just out of this world. It was new in 2018."Image caption,
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