Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital among the facilities suspending some surgeries
Gold Coast Health said its hospitals would only provide emergency surgery and trauma services, as well as urgent elective surgeries.“We understand it can be disappointing and frustrating to have non-urgent elective surgery or outpatient appointments postponed.”
“Remember that elective operations aren’t useless operations, they’re operations which are necessary for the health of a person, but don’t need to be done tomorrow or next month,” Perry told ABC Radio. “Even if you’re relatively young, it can give you long Covid, it can make you just transmit it more, or get sicker.
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