Pregnant women moved to Dublin amid bug outbreak in Belfast

Two heavily pregnant women have been forced to travel from the North to Dublin to have their babies because of a deadly infection outbreak.

Two heavily pregnant women have been forced to travel from the North to Dublin to have their babies because of a deadly infection outbreak.

The expectant mothers were due to give birth at the Royal Hospital in west Belfast but had to endure the 100-mile journey when a bacteria called pseudomonas struck the neonatal unit.

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