Mark Allen in shock over ‘third-world’ West Melbourne hospital crisis

Patients at a new $1.5 billion hospital in Melbourne’s west were left waiting days for treatment due to a lack of funding and staffing shortages.

3AW host Mark Allen said that he could not believe something like this could happen to a brand-new facility that was so desperately needed to service Melbourne’s western suburbs.

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“Surely we can do better than that?” he said.

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