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Dr. Claudine Storness-Bliss, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Surrey Memorial Hospital, said critically inadequate resources are compromising patient safety within the hospital's family birthing unit. She said that at least one newborn death directly resulted from the staffing crisis. More than two-thirds of women's health providers at the hospital have signed the latest letter. It says the family birthing unit at SMH serves more people than B.C. Women's Hospital and St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver but only has