The stay-at-home husband of Blue Mountains MP Roza Sage has labelled nurses lazy and claims they would rather "sit around and do nothing" than deliver babies.
Edward "Ted" Sage's controversial comments came after Mt Druitt woman Christie Jones allegedly delivered her own baby in the maternity ward of Blacktown Hospital at 2am on Wednesday. The case is now under investigation.
On Twitter on Friday, Mr Sage said similar incidents "happened every day in hospitals all over Australia" and that opposition health spokesman Dr Andrew MacDonald was wrong to blame it on state government health cuts, instead pointing his finger at the hospital's nursing staff.
"Maybe he should look at the behaviour of the nursing staff who would rather sit around and do nothing," Mr Sage wrote.
The comments have been met with outrage by the Midwives Association and Dr MacDonald, who demanded he apologise.
Dr MacDonald said the comments made Mr Sage look like a "cretinous idiot" who had probably never worked with nurses in his life.
"Unfortunately, his comments are what many in the Liberal Party believe if you scratch the surface," he said. "He needs to make a public apology to the nursing profession."
Lisa Kremmer, from the Midwives Association, said the midwives were devastated by what happened at Blacktown Hospital.
"The midwives at Blacktown Hospital would like to see him apologise; I'm sure they don't see themselves as lazy," she said.
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