The number of beds needed in state hospitals was highlighted in Sunrise's own Health debate, featuring both health ministers, Tony Abbott and Nicola Roxon. 

Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital is set to receive only 12 of the 250 new emergency beds being provided across the State.

The Royal North Shore - the scene of Jana Horska's heartbreaking miscarriage in a toilet cubicle earlier this year - says the government's plan for new beds delivers 75% less beds than doctors say is needed.

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The announcement from the Iemma government follows last week's inquiry into the hospital, which was told more beds could have prevented Jana Horska.

Horska has said that she is still optimistic. "I want to have children again," she told media over the weekend.  "I want to get pregnant again and I want to get better treatment next time. So I hope they change it because these are the people who really can."

In the Iemma government's statement, the blame is shifted to the federal government.

“But while the NSW Government is funding additional growth and additional beds with a record $12.5 billion Budget for 2007/08, the Howard Government is offering nothing."

 

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