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Overcrowding in Victorian hospitals ‘bigger emergency than Covid’, expert warns
Stressed staff, lack of beds and backlog of people accessing care all contributing to crisis, leading emergency physician says
Overcrowding in Victoria’s healthcare system is a “bigger public health emergency than Covid,” according to a leading emergency physician who says the state’s doctors and nurses were exhausted even before the latest outbreak.
Victoria is in a seven-day lockdown with 30 cases of community transmission, more than 120 exposure sites, and 15,000 primary and secondary contacts of cases in isolation.
Read the original article at The Guardian