WA's Health Minister says hospitals already under pressure from COVID-19 amid calls for more funding

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Western Australia's Health Minister lashes out at the federal government, saying the state's hospitals need more funding due to pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic, a day after Prime Minister Scott Morrison rejected calls for more spending.

Mr Morrison said both New South Wales and Victoria had managed surges in hospital demand with funding at current levels.

Mr Morrison said stresses on hospital systems in some states and territories had "nothing to do with COVID", but Mr Cook said that was not the case.That included mental health presentations and people deferring care from 2020, according to Mr Cook. Mr Cook says increased mental health presentations during the pandemic have put pressure on hospitals."We know that when delta comes into WA, we will face unprecedented demand in our hospital system," he said.

 

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I call bulllllshhhhiieeet

COVID Vax injuries are filling up ICU

Cooke is a squirmy little piece of work

How, WA has been hiding behind their barrier for over 12 months. Focus on WA hospitals being continually underfunded by the WA government and that WA ambulances are frequently on ramp sans Coveid. All ALP states have starved their health systems. Check it out

Huh? Covid vaccine injured you mean!!

That fool Roger Cook is up to his usual tactics of shifting attention from the real issue, his woeful administration of the health system. If he thinks WA hospitals are under pressure from Covid, wait until a real Delta outbreak happens. Time for a ministerial reshuffle McGowan!!

How?

thought WA has no cases

🤨 refreshing to see more nonsense from the McClown show

BS

Didn’t McGowan just boast about a gazillion $ budget surplus? And still putting his hand out for more from the Feds.🙄

Why do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn't protect the protected in the first place?

Wait hang on!? As of today their whole state total is 1110 cases? And already under pressure from covid? Yes hospitals need more funding from a variety of things, not just fucking covid

they are using the old blame morrison line getting boring now states are responsible for health not federal

All the doofus here going the surplus, read your budget health is being invested in or complain without knowledge. This is an Australian issue hence all health Minister signing the letter so the WA hate leave to the your states involved in this.

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