On an average day, the hospital treats about 450 people in accident and emergency.

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Women who gave birth naturally on average spent one day in hospital after the delivery, those who needed instruments took two days to be discharged, and those who underwent caesareans did not go home for four days on average.

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They could also leave the hospital nearly a full day earlier on average (which saved some two thousand dollars per patient).

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