Criminal charges have been laid more than two years after a newborn baby died in a tragic gas mix-up at a Sydney Hospital.
Baby John Ghanem died after he was accidentally given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen at Lidcombe-Bankstown Hospital in July 2016.
Another baby, Amelia Khan, was left with permanent brain damage in a similar mix-up at the same hospital a month earlier.
The hospital's general manager and acting director were both stood down and an investigation was carried out into both incidents.
A report released in August 2016 pointed to "a series of tragic errors" at the hospital including incorrect installations of gas pipelines, flawed testing and significant clinical and management failures.
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On Wednesday Safework NSW confirmed to AAP it had filed criminal charges for the matter but a spokeswoman refused to comment further.
Five sets of criminal charges have been levelled at the state government's South-West Sydney Local Health District, the gas company and the man who installed the gas, Nine Network reported on Wednesday.
