âA genuine moment of crisisâ: Mental health patients wait days in emergency wards
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Suicidal and psychotic patients spent days waiting in Melbourne emergency department cubicles this week as a shortage of mental health beds was exacerbated by the forced lock down of psychiatric wards at three hospitals.
There were 129 beds temporarily closed to new admissions at The Alfred, the Northern Hospital in Epping and Broadmeadows Hospital because a mental health worker who had worked in all three health services tested positive to COVID-19 and was linked to the Holiday Inn outbreak.
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