Newborn dies after given 'laughing gas' 

A newborn baby has died after being given laughing gas instead of oxygen in a tragic mix-up at an Australian hospital which left another infant severely disabled.  

A doctor raised the alarm after the baby boy died unexpectedly earlier this month, with tests revealing that an outlet in the wall at Sydney's Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital was emitting nitrous oxide instead of oxygen.  

Another baby is fighting for her life after being wrongly administered the incorrect gas in June.  New South Wales Health Minister, Jillian Skinner, has ordered an investigation describing it as tragic mistake. 

The gas bungles come less than six months after it was revealed that dozens of cancer patients at another Sydney hospital were given the wrong chemotherapy dosages as far back as 2012.

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