Birthing services at Millicent and District Hospital ceased exactly a decade ago and have since been provided from Mount Gambier.

Health authorities took this decision midway through 2013 due to the limited availability of Millicent doctors with obstetric and anaesthetic skills to provide a local birthing service in a safe and consistent way.

A high-profile community campaign to reinstate Millicent birthing services was unsuccessful.

Pre and post-natal care has continued to be offered at Millicent Hospital while there has been a very small number of emergency births.

At the time of the closure of the Millicent birthing unit, there were eight midwives employed at the hospital.

However, there were no job losses as a result of this change of service.

The annual number of births at Millicent had peaked at 220 in the late 1980s.

This number had dropped to around 60 a decade ago.

Babies are also no longer being delivered at the Penola, Kingston, Keith and Bordertown hospitals.