According to the KwaZulu Natal Provincial Department of Health, the response is as follows:
a) It was the professional nurses with a qualification as Advanced Midwives;
b) (i) A formal disciplinary process has been instituted against the involved staff members.
(ii) This was a full term baby born to a 16 year old mother. There was late booking to the antenatal clinic with 4 visits. The newborn was born with fetal distress. Other problems were that of jaundice and parenteral diarrhoea with neonatal sepsis. The cause of death was neonatal sepsis.
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