Liz Hayes broke down during a 60 Minutes report, saying millions of Australians are suffering within a “broken” health system.
The veteran TV reporter said it was her father’s ‘greatest fear’ not to receive his medication. Picture: 60 minutes/Channel 9Hayes travelled to Taree to investigate the death of her father Bryan Ryan and rural Australia’s ‘broken’ health system. Picture: 60 minutes/Channel 9When Hayes asked for water or food because her father was “begging” for some, she says she was told: “No”.
“What I was witnessing was wrong. I couldn’t pretend it hadn’t happened. I couldn’t pretend it was somebody else’s dad … this was brutal and it was awful.” “Instead what confronts so many people in regional Australia is a health service that is underfunded, ill-equipped and struggling to cope – with devastating consequences,” Hayes reports.Hayes shared her dad’s tragic story.episode investigates the countless Australians “who have suffered malpractice in their sickest and most vulnerable moments”.
Alan Wells had built his own home, was a community volunteer, and president of his town’s parks and gardens committee but had felt lost when his wife, Cecilia died in 2016. Mr Wells was sent back to Cobar Hospital and then discharged to a nursing home. He was put in an ambulance, in 40 degree heat, for a four-hour trip.
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