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QLD urged to revoke healthcare policy
Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans says he will ask Queensland Premier Anna Bligh to revoke a state policy that denies hospital care to pregnant international students.
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Not only students are being refused service! I am a postdoctoral fellow working at UQ, I am a taxpayer, I have appropriate provate insurance but my wife can not give birth in Brisbane! As the RBWH will not accept us and we live outside the Mater Hospital catchment, we are forced to get prenatal and birth sevices outside of Brisbane (Ipswich Hospital, a 40 minutes drive from home without trafic). QLD healthcare policy is degrading and as such it will stop many qualified academics and professionals from coming here as temporary residents.
Please what should we do, why they accept us here as a student then they won’t take care of us?????