Australia's 'worst emergency room' where patients would rather DIE

Traumatised patients have revealed that they would rather die than return to one hospital's notorious emergency room. - www.dailymail.co.uk

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Traumatised patients have revealed that they would rather die than return to a hospital emergency room in Sydney. People unfortunate enough to have spent time in the emergency room at Blacktown Hospital in Sydney's west have said they would rather be sent anywhere else. Photos have emerged of of patients sprawled out on the waiting room floor, with some forced to wait more than four hours to be treated.

Despite the emergency room being brand new, Blacktown Hospital is still one of the worst hospitals in the state, according to statistics from the Bureau of Health Information which were published on Wednesday. The latest quarterly data revealed that emergency department attendances were up 9.7 per cent and ambulance attendances rose 11.



2 per cent compared to the second quarter of 2024. NSW Health Minister Ryan Park blamed long wait times on some people 'using emergency departments as a way to try to access primary health care', which has 'never been the way our health system in this country has been..

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