A young woman with cancer waits hours to be treated in the Royal Adelaide Hospital emergency department in an example of how the influx of COVID-19 patients is affecting the city's hospitals.
A young woman with cancer has waited hours to be treated in the emergency department in an example of how the influx of COVID-19 patients is affecting Adelaide hospitals.An 18-year-old with Hodgkin's lymphoma had to wait hours for treatment at an emergency department, prompting the state government to appoint an COVID acute commander yesterday, open new COVID wards, recruit student nurses to work in hospitals and move some patients to country hospitals.
The specialist gave Tara and her mother Leeanne a note saying she should be seen within 30 minutes and the tests should be done within two hours. "There is a time period that she needs to be seen within — like a 30-minute time period — and then within two hours these other tests must be done and that hasn't happened," Leeanne Winston, from Mount Barker, said last night.
A woman near them in the emergency department mentioned she was COVID-positive but after being taken to the toilet by a staff member was then returned to among the rest of the inpatients.
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