Dave Tollner (Solomon, Country Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It was deferred six times in 12 months. Over the Christmas and New Year period of 2005-06, across the Territory emergency departments had queues of patients waiting for treatments and admissions to wards. Some patients were waiting on trolleys in corridors for up to four days, and some of them did not even get admitted to the wards but instead were treated in the emergency department over several days and then discharged.

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