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Melissa Meehan

INSANE: Stretchering pregnant women unsafe | Vintage Vibes

Melbourne hospital staff used a system of ropes to get pregnant women to an operating theatre. (AAP)

Sliding pregnant women needing surgery down a Melbourne hospital stairwell in a stretcher was an unsafe request of nurses, according to their union, who has referred the matter to the workplace watchdog.

On Tuesday, AAP revealed heavily pregnant women in need of emergency Caesarean births were being strapped to a stretcher and carried through a stairwell at Angliss Hospital in Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs.

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