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Long delays for elective surgery in NSW take their toll ahead of winter ‘disaster’
Medical association president says waiting lists will get worse with staff burnout and increased flu cases
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Tuesday’s planned tongue surgery was supposed to leave three-year-old Madoc breathing a little easier.
Instead, he returned home after the procedure was postponed for the second time in 10 months. A surgeon at the Westmead children’s hospital told his distraught mother, Kelsey Boivin, that it could not go ahead as there were no ICU beds left.
Read the original article at The Guardian