Stillbirth Foundation Australia says national stillborn baby toll ‘dwarfs the national road toll’
The federal government has sought advice on covering the cost of autopsies on stillborn babies under Medicare as part of a $50m response to a parliamentary inquiry that found the rate of stillbirths in Australia had been unchanged for 20 years.
The announcement coincided with the release of a report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) into the rates of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in 2015 and 2016, which found that rates of perinatal death had remained “relatively constant since 1997”.
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