The $2billion cost of our failure to care for Kiwi mums

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New reports expose the devastating human and financial cost of New Zealand's maternal mental health crisis After his wife's death by suicide, a grieving husband describes a NZ mental health inpatient facility as being 'unfit for his dogs to spend time in, let alone his wife who's just given birth'Find The Detail on Newsroom or RNZGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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