Significant number of children admitted to Queensland Children’s Hospital didn’t have suncreen applied
Source: ABC News, December 2022
Doctors and nurses at the Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH) are alarmed at the number of children – especially infants – needing hospital treatment for severe and painful sunburn.
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Children’s Health Queensland said 50 children were treated at the hospital for sunburn in 2020 and 2021, with some referred from other parts of the state.
