What is the government really describing when it says it will open beds across the system? Where are these beds, and are there enough nurses to staff them?
Perth hospitals operating at 90 per cent capacity with hundreds of beds offline
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Perth’s hospitals are operating at 90 per cent maximum capacity due to staff, equipment and funding shortages preventing the opening of more than 400 beds including 178 sitting empty in decommissioned wards.
The shortfall comes as medical bodies continue to sound the alarm over doctors and nurses being overworked, with reports of patients overflowing into corridors and internal emergencies to clear beds being regularly called.
Nurses and doctors protesting resourcing and systemic issues on Tuesday.
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PTI | May 24, 2021 | Updated 16:42 IST
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