An exceptional start, a promising future | Mater throughout history | Mater Mothers'

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Channel: Mater · 2012 · News & Politics

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It has been more than 50 years since the first newborn cry rang out through Mater Mothers' Hospitals. The original hospital, officially opened on 1 December 1960 by His Excellency Sir Henry Abel Smith, Governor of Queensland, cost $2 million and offered 70 public and 70 private beds.

(Footage courtesy of Nine News)

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