An infectious disease outbreak at a Nepean Hospital ward is preventing families from visiting loved ones.

Listener Peter has been prevented from seeing his wife Donna amid the visitor ban in the Oncology Ward.

On top of this, Peter claims “the public elevators to floor 7 do not work … visitors have to wait for nurses to take them back down in the secure staff elevators, which only half are working.”

He told Ben Fordham the patients are struggling.

“You have to apply every day and beg to get in there.”

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Shadow health minister Ryan Park told Ben the situation is unacceptable.

“It’s an absolute joke and it’s a disgrace.

“These are very, very sick people … we need to show a bit of commonsense and a bit of compassion.”

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