South Australia's code yellow emergency has been extended for metropolitan and peri-urban hospitals, but will be lifted for country hospitals. Respiratory infections have been largely blamed for the surge in demand, as the government works to add extra beds.
SA's code yellow emergency has been extended for metropolitan and peri-urban hospitals, but will be lifted for country hospitals.
Mr Picton said restrictions would be lifted entirely for elective surgeries in country hospitals from 5pm today. "We know that one of the key blockages that we have is that our emergency departments have become full of patients who need a ward bed but there's no ward beds for them to go to, that's why we're building hundreds of extra hospital beds," he said.Meanwhile, the opposition has criticised the government for what it says is "poor decision making" and outcomes in health.
"We have world class doctors, we have some world class facilities, we have world class health care professionals, but when elective surgeries are cancelled indefinitely, that is not a world class outcome… it is absolutely unacceptable.""We have the reality of record funds going into the health system but record ramping, enough is enough," he said.
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