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Sydney news: Two NSW hospitals without doctors for Christmas break, students receive HSC results
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Tumut Hospital in the Snowy Valley and West Wyalong Hospital in the Riverina have staff shortages.
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Rural hospital staff shortage
Two rural New South Wales hospitals in the Riverina and the Snowy Valley will be without doctors during the Christmas and New Year break.
West Wyalong won t have a visiting medical officer on site for two weeks from Christmas Eve and Tumut s hospital will be without a doctor for three days from January 1.
The West Wyalong-based Bland Shire Mayor Brian Monaghan said telehealth services were not a substitute.
A trough is generating storms, some severe, over eastern parts of Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland.
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More rain is forecast across NSW today after parts of the Northern Rivers was flooded yesterday.(Josh Dye)
In NSW, a severe storm warning is in place for a large part of the state with damaging winds also expected to hit the Sydney Coast, Illawarra Coast, Batemans Coast and Eden Coast.
The conditions come after low-lying areas of the NSW Northern Rivers to become submerged after a deluge of more than 200mm of rain in a period of about seven hours.