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A 14-week-old baby in urgent need of heart surgery has had the operation cancelled four times in the past two weeks as hospitals are overrun with Covid patients.
Amelia Rehn was born with a congenital heart disease and is waiting for her stent surgery at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital.
She had her first stent implanted at just two-days-old but is now in need of a replacement as she gets older.
Her anxious parents, Brad and Jessica Rehn, from Tasmania, have been by Amelia's side in hospital and say they still have no clue when their daughter will be operated on.
'She is certainly sick enough that she needs to be in here and monitored but not sick enough to be pushed for an emergency surgery,' Ms
