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Sydney hospital in another baby mishap

Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is contacting 282 mothers who delivered babies recently over an ineffective hepatitis B vaccine.

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The same western Sydney hospital responsible for the accidental gassing of two babies is now at the centre of another mishap with several babies given an ineffective hepatitis B vaccine.

Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is contacting hundreds of mothers about the mistake after a fridge that stored routine vaccines was discovered with low temperature readings.

Six infants have been called back and offered an additional vaccination.


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