South Australian public hospitals are under strain with the health department boss declaring a system-wide internal emergency after many staff are sick with COVID.
South Australia's entire public hospital system is operating under an internal emergency with long patient wait times and delayed elective surgeries .
SA Health chief executive Robyn Lawrence called a code yellow on Thursday afternoon, opening all available beds and paused almost all elective surgeries in metropolitan and regional public hospitals.All Adelaide metropolitan emergency departments were operating at code white, which means they were over-capacity, earlier on Thursday.
"Many hospitals are also being impacted by the large amount of respiratory illness in our community, in particular COVID and flu, which is also creating staff shortages." "And we're going to go through some pain. We're seeing a reduction in elective surgery as a response.At this stage it is unclear how long the measure will be in place for and an SA Health spokesperson refused to provide further details about the internal emergency.
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