Campaigners say they hope the intervention of the United Nations and the Scottish Human Rights Commission will help strengthen maternity services in Caithness.
NHS Highland is considering their advice after downgrading services at Caithness General Hospital in Wick, leaving most mothers-to-be having to travel more than 100 miles to Inverness to give birth.
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