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Content warning: references pregnancy loss When Reena Rana miscarried her first pregnancy in 2013, she waited at the hospital’s A&E department for hours. “I was two and a half months pregnant and I started spotting. I rushed to the hospital, and they said, ‘Why don’t you take a seat, we are very busy. They made me sit for four and half hours,” the 36-year-old said. It wasn’t until Reena lost more blood that she said she was given more attention, and then sent home with the message t...

Advertisement As women across Victoria experience high levels of depression and anxiety, chief executives from the state’s 12 women’s health services will call on Treasurer Tim Pallas to include a large sum for gender-specific mental health services in the May 20 budget. The members of Victoria’s Women’s Health Service Council say they would be “devastated” if their budget bid for $59 million, much of it for mental health support, is not met but believe it is unlik...