Messages from doctors working in the Perth Children's Hospital emergency department paint a stark picture of WA's health crisis.
Delays at the PCH emergency department spiked on August 29 with a median triage wait time for urgent patients of 105 minutes.The most urgent patient category — triage 1 — is used to describe patients with immediate life-threatening conditions.Messages in the PCH staff group chat described a shift where the emergency short stay unit was still at capacity by the time the next shift was set to take over.And by handover we had a full ESSU.
"Based on previous seasonal trends and current activity ... it is expected that RSV activity will continue to remain high and may continue to rise," she said. The state government said Perth's hospitals were dealing with high demand being experienced across the country. "We have put far more staff in and far more resources into the Perth Children's Hospital to deal with the demand," Premier Mark McGowan said.Since the beginning of this year, there has been a significant increase in the amount of time patients are forced to wait to be admitted after presenting at PCH.But monthly averages at PCH have not met that target since January.
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