Text messages describe ‘Third World’ conditions in Sydney hospital emergency room | Lucy_Cormack
The 88-year-old woman had been in the western Sydney hospital emergency room for six hours. She was in kidney failure.
At the inquiry emergency medicine physicians Dr Pramod Chandru and Dr James Tadros with Dr Setthy Ung of the South Western Sydney Local Health District.Nurses could not do anything for the woman while she was in the waiting room, including delivering her slow intravenous fluids, Dr Tadros wrote. At her age, a more rapid infusion could be deadly.
Upper house Labor MP Rose Jackson said the evidence had given a “shocking insight” into the frontline crisis in NSW hospitals.Data from the Bureau of Health Information last month showed more than a quarter of patients arriving at NSW hospitals by ambulance spent at least 30 minutes parked outside or waiting in corridors before entering.
A NSW Health spokeswoman said almost 84 per cent of ambulance patients were transferred to an emergency department within 30 minutes, which is the best performance among all Australian jurisdictions. While she acknowledged “tremendous” recent health infrastructure spending by the government, Dr Skinner said there had not been concurrent investment in staff.
Health Services Union secretary Gerard Hayes said Hazzard had guided the health sector through the challenges of the pandemic, but a royal commission was needed into health spending.
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