Baby boy left fighting for life after eating significant amount of ice as mum charged
The child s mum handed herself in to police on December 16 and was charged with endangering the life of children by exposure after her son ingested a significant amount of ice
The force were called after the mum, and three others, began to realise something was seriously wrong with the child (Image: AFP /AFP via Getty Images)
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21:21 EDT, 16 December 2020
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A baby boy was left fighting for life after consuming a significant amount of ice while visiting an apartment with his mother.
The one-year-old child was taken to a Hamilton Ave unit in Surfers Paradise with his 20-year-old mother on November 6 and ingested a significant quantity of ice, police allege.
The child then began to vomit and partially lost consciousness when the mother and three others realised something was wrong, police said.
The one-year-old child was taken to a Hamilton Ave apartment in Surfers Paradise with his 20-year-old mother on November 6 and ingested a significant quantity of ice, police allege (stock)
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Premium Content  A BABY boy was critically injured after ingesting a significant amount of the drug ice during a visit to a Glitter Strip unit complex with his mother, police allege. Detectives from the Gold Coast Child Protection Investigation Unit on Wednesday charged the 20-year-old mum after a month-long investigation. Police will allege the woman visited a Hamilton Ave unit complex at Surfers Paradise with her 12-month-old baby on November 6. Police allege the baby boy ingested a âsignificantâ amount of the drug ice. Acting Detective Inspector Troy Penrose, of the Vulnerable Persons and Domestic Violence Unit, said police would allege the child consumed a significant quantity of methamphetamine while at the unit.
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17 December 2020.
In September, the federal government announced a new $2 billion COVID-19 health measures package that extended the temporary MBS item numbers for telehealth for a further six months. It also included an extension to the subsidised home delivery of medicines measure, as well as continued free access to the Healthdirect video conferencing system for GPs and SMS messages for electronic prescriptions.
The special arrangement for image-based prescriptions was also extended, as was the end-date for software with fast-tracked (FT) eScript capability. Towards the end of the year, vendors such as MMEx began rolling out ffully conformant versions, and by December, Health Minister Greg Hunt was announcing that item numbers for telehealth would be kept permanently.
North Pole opens to travellers from Gold Coast University Hospital in Qantas simulation flight
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Charlotte de la Garde after the Tiny Travellers North Pole flight with her mother Melanie.
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Charlotte de la Garde jetted off to the North Pole yesterday on a special simulated charter flight for children at the Gold Coast University Hospital.
Key points: Gold Coast children boarded a simulated flight from hospital to the North Pole to meet Santa Charlotte de la Garde was one traveller after a rollercoaster year in hospital after contracting encephalitis The flight was staffed by Qantas attendants who had a tough year too with cutbacks due to the pandemic