There are calls for Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath to resign after it was revealed that 10,000 patients waited more than 24 hours for a bed in emergency departments in the first seven months of this financial year.
An average of 50 people per day are going without a bed – an increase from 2022, where the mean was 34 and as little as 10 in 2016.
The Queensland government argues the damning figures fail to show pressure placed on the system through COVID-19, a shortage in GPs and aged care patients clogging hospitals.
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