Deaths Of 21 Babies In Past Decade Sparks Campaign To Highlight "Lack Of Standards" In Maternity Care

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Safer Births Ireland is calling on the State to review the deaths.

Campaigners are attempting to highlight a "lack of standards" in Irish maternity care, following the deaths of 21 babies over the past decade.

Safer Births Ireland is urging the government to review the deaths, a number of which occurred in Portlaoise.

They've all come since the revelation of the Portlaoise scandal in 2014, in which an RTE Investigates programme highlighted the deaths of four babies.

Portlaoise's Claire Cullen, from Safer Births Ireland, says there's too many similarities:

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