abc.net.au/news/elective-surgery-hits-decade-low-in-australia/101742762The number of people having elective surgery in Australia has dropped to a 10-year low, according to new figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare .
The number of elective surgeries performed in 2021-22 was 131,600 fewer than the previous year, AIHW spokesperson Adrian Webster said. Patients who had to wait the longest were those on the list for getting a deviated septum, or nasal passage, fixed , while the shortest wait time was for patients needing dialysis access surgery .
The impact of insane policies you mean
I think you were meant to say covid and lockdowns
Better get the 14th booster shot ready… clearly doing the trick
I believe they were called lockdowns
I wonder why? My ABC.
ABC doesn't want to do the story about NSW Pensioners (tenants) who live in NSW Housing/NSW Community Housing are financially penalties, by loosing 25% of their 'Energy Supplement' as part of their fortnightly rental calculation.
Remember the ABC was all for elective surgeries to be postponed because of covid
The way Australian governments 'managed' covid was a choice they made in full knowledge of these potential flow-on effects. They ignored places like Sweden and went full-on lockdown anyway.
Your reminder that the backlog started in 2020 when we had almost no covid but lots of lockdowns
No shit! It's not just elective surgery. The shutting down of hospitals to stop the spread of COVID has made specialist visits, imaging & all the other things that happen in hospitals.
Exaggeration of 'biblical proportions' by 'our' ABC.
Bloods on your hands ABC
We have a Sinking Health System and Services with no Improvements in view. There are plenty of Good Health Services to draw examples from, but our Governments will not take note or look at them because they are Embarrassed.
The governments cancelled surgeries and turned hospitals upside down not covid.
Why are there so many sick people all of a sudden? Was it ever this bad?
Nuremberg two coming.
You spelt government incorrectly.
Look it's not what Aussie's are used to. But we still have one of the best health systems and workers on the planet, imagine how bad the others are?
To correct, it was the impact of our govt’s response to Covid-19, the actions of our media in pedaling the fear, not the virus itself that caused this.
The Bible is about 80,000 words. Well the Ethiopians include Enoch so these has 81 books. But isn't much bigger. That would be a couple of filing cabinet drawers. What is the issue?
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