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In front, registered nurse Karen Mattie of Elizabeth holds a 6-month-old kangaroo (not yet named) while Leslie Denlinger, an echo tech, holds 9-month old Isla. See more photos from the visit on A7. To purchase this photo and more from our online photo gallery, go to our website at www.monvalleyindependent.com.
By JEFF STITT
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“We’re bringing the Outback to the ‘burbs out here in the east (of Pittsburgh),” Dr. Dawn Klejka joked as she watched two nurses holding a baby kangaroo in UPMC McKeesport’s courtyard.
Staff members — and the occasional patient — lined up outside of UPMC McKeesport Wednesday afternoon to meet a couple of joeys, Isla — a 9-month-old kangaroo, and another female who is 6 months old and doesn’t yet have a name.
Nurses, physicians, aides, radiology department staff, building and grounds workers, UPMC police and others were given the chance to spend a few minutes holding and cuddling with the baby roos in a cloth pouch bag. Since kangaroos are marsupials and Isla and the other joey are still young, the bag is meant to simulate a mother kangaroo’s pouch.
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