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B.C.’s Health Minister confirmed a police investigation is underway after a woman entered the NICU at Surrey Memorial Hospital and had skin-to-skin contact with three babies.

Lindsey Susan Hirtreiter, 35, is facing three counts of assault and appeared in court on Monday for a bail hearing, but the matter was put over to Tuesday.

Health Minister Josie Osborne also confirmed that Fraser Health is investigating what happened.

“It’s very important that anything that can be learned from an incident like that is used to adapt policies and something I know that Fraser Health takes incredibly seriously,” she said.

“We’ll let that police investigation, of course, unfold and see where that goes.”

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