“BLUE BABY” OPERATIONS
SUCCESSFUL AUSTRALIAN TECHNIQUE
BETTER EQUIPMENT REQUIRED
Rec. 9 p.m. CANBERRA, May 19. Ten operations have been performed on “blue babies” in Australia since last October and eight of these have been completely successful. This information is disclosed in a letter to the National Health and Medical Research Council from the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, where the operations were carried out. The council has agreed that there is no longer any need for “blue babies” to be sent to America for treatment. • The letter stated that recurring appeals for individual cases created the impression that only a favoured few could receive treatment by going abroad. Dollar credits allotted to help these children could be better spent in procuring additional equipment to improve facilities in Australia. .Already there are 30 to 40 “ blue babies on the waiting list, mainly because the hospital has only one special oxygen tent in which patients have to spend five or six days after the operaresults compare favourably with those obtained in a series of cases handled by Dr Blalock, who developed the technique in America.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26776, 20 May 1948, Page 6
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