Private surgery feels COVID stress

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Private surgery feels COVID stress

Vanessa Weenink

Tuesday 9 August 2022, 10:30 AM

Patients who contract COVID-19 may have a long stand-down before they can have anaesthesia [image: Herjua on iStock]

Jennifer Kaponga takes a snapshot of how booking private surgery has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic

To book just one patient onto a surgery list now takes almost treble the time it took prior to COVID COVID-19 continues to wield a heavy hand wit, Jennifer Kaponga, Jennifer Kaponga

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