Four Newborn Babies Die After Australian COVID-19 Restrictions Prevented Travel

By  Ian Haworth

According to health officials, four babies have died in Adelaide, Australia over the last four-week period, after being denied medical transport to Melbourne because of COVID-19 restrictions.

“Adelaide, the capital city of the state of South Australia, doesn’t offer pediatric cardiac surgery,” explained the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Local news outlets have reported that this means that approximately 100 babies are sent to other states for treatment every year, usually to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, 450 miles to the South East.

“Because of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, however, Melbourne no longer remains an option. Patients must be sent to Sydney instead,” FEE reported, with Sydney being 850 miles to the East.

This difference equates to an extra 45 minutes in flight time, which can have a huge impact when it comes to a sick infant whose survival can depend on treatment received within minutes.

“The infants never left Adelaide, news reports indicate, presumably because doctors either determined they would not survive the lengthy trip or because Sydney’s Children’s Hospital at Westmead — the lone hospital available due to travel restrictions — lacked the capacity to treat them,” FEE added, meaning that “the infants failed to receive treatment that could have saved their lives.”

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