COVID-19: Hospitals brace for elective surgery shut-downs

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COVID-19: Hospitals brace for elective surgery shut-downs

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If elective surgeries get cancelled, longer hospital stay procedures will be the first cut, director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield says
A lot of our hospitals are already operating around 100 per cent of acute demand, so there’s really not a lot of fat in the [hospital system and workf