Fears for patients’ lives as Westmead Hospital reaches ‘crisis point’
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Ray Hadley has revealed Westmead Hospital is reaching a “crisis point”.
Sources have told The Ray Hadley Morning Show hospitals are being overwhelmed with COVID patients, leaving cardiac patients without a bed.
“Surgeons are very concerned that people may die waiting for surgery,” Ray said.
Ray is suggesting the federal government reintroduce a practice from last year, where they offered to fund public patients in private hospitals.
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