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Charity to hand petition to Prime Minister
MPs will deliver a petition of more than 11,000 signatures to the Prime Minister Gordon Brown tomorrow (Wednesday), calling on the Government to make testing for a potentially fatal infection available to all pregnant women on the NHS.
The petition was drawn up by the Haywards Heath based charity Group B Strep Support and Pregnancy & Birth magazine as part of a joint campaign to end the needless loss of babies' lives to the group B Streptococcus (GBS) infection.
At Downing Street Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames will join other MPs from England and Northern Ireland and medical professionals including This Morning's Dr Chris Steele.
Four mothers whose babies suffered life-threatening GBS infections will also be at the Downing Street hand-over together with the founder the Group B Strep Support charity, Jane Plumb, who lost her second son Theo to GBS.
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