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Labour, birth services will be unavailable at Waterville, N.B., hospital for a week
Upper River Valley Hospital in Waterville, N.B., is pictured in this undated image. (Source: Horizon Health Network)
The Upper River Valley Hospital in Waterville, N.B., will not have labour and birth services for the next week.
Horizon Health says the services will be unavailable from 8 a.m. Thursday to 8 a.m. next Friday (July 4).
Any pregnant people in the region will need to travel to Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton for services.
'The reason for this change is availability of physicians to provide emergency caesarian sections (C-sections),' a news release from Horizon reads. 'Even if a pregnant individual feels they are low-risk and do not require a C-section, they must still travel to the (Chalmers Regional Hospital) for labour and birth, as pregnancy-related issues and emergency situations can quickly arise during childbirth.
'All individuals in the (Upper River Valley Hospital) service area who are 35 weeks pregnant and over have been contacted by nursing staff.'
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