Premature baby’s critical surgery cancelled due to budget cuts at Adelaide hospital, mother says

Critical surgery for a baby’s life-threatening condition had to be cancelled at the eleventh hour because the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide did not have the budget to staff an intensive care bed for the infant, her mother says.

Emma Bone’s 10-month-old daughter Willow was born at 28 weeks and has ongoing health issues, including being fed through a tube.

“Her problem is she aspirates her fluid, so it sits in her lungs and causes her to stop breathing which she sort of does on a daily basis, she goes unconscious, she…