Queensland Health confirms 314 patients attended the Logan Hospital on Monday — the highest number ever recorded — as patients reveal unacceptable delays waiting for treatment at some Queensland hospitals.
Concerns have been raised over emergency department waiting times at the Logan and Redlands hospitals after patients revealed they had waited days for treatment.A 192-bed expansion is underway at the Logan HospitalA Queensland Health spokesperson confirmed yesterday 314 patients attended the Logan Hospital Emergency Department — the highest number ever recorded.
"If you don't provide the right resources and there's not the capacity in the system you'll get this situation where patients will be stuck in EDs as we've said for days and that's clearly, clearly unacceptable." "If he had been seen straight away it would have been a one-hour operation and he would have been out on the second day, but it turned into a two-hour operation with possible complications for life.""These sort of cases really highlight the fact that if you're operating a hospital system at 100 per cent capacity, seven days a week, people are going to suffer," Dr Judkins said.
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