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AMA Urges Government to Fund More for Hospital Beds
This is a huge, much-needed boost to hospital funding, and a great catch-up for hospitals and emergency departments around the nation, Dr Capolingua said.
New equipment and upgraded emergency departments are absolutely necessary.
But unfortunately its not much use having new equipment if youve still got patients in pain, waiting in corridors on stretchers because there arent enough beds to go around.
The AMA has repeatedly called on COAG to commit at least $3 billion to funding 3,750 new public hospital beds and the staff and infrastructure to service them.
We need thousands more beds in Australias hospitals, or the emergency department blockages are not going to go away, Dr Capolingua said.
This is an urgent problem. It needs an immediate solution.
The Government has shown this week that it is capable of making a big short-term commitment to the nations public health system now lets see that commitment extend to ensuring every patient is able to get a bed in a ward when he or she needs it.
Source-AMA
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