A senior doctor at Sydney hospitals says colleagues have quit and retired due to the pressure of COVID-19 — challenging the Premier to spend a week on the frontline.
On Monday, Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said NSW Health had one of the largest workforces in the country but, like many health systems around the world, it was under stress.
The peak of NSW's hospitalisation rate for COVID was 2,166, which came at the height of the last year's deadly Delta wave on September 21.Mr Perrottet said ensuring the health system had the resources it needed during the pandemic was his "number one priority". Kim Dawson told the ABC her eight-year-old son, Eli, who has non-verbal autism, was tested on Christmas after contracting the virus from his carer.
She said her family had been caught in a "perfect storm" of rising case numbers and holiday-goers ballooning out wait times for COVID tests.
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