‘Third world system’: Jacqui Felgate on reports of hospital wait times in Melbourne’s north

3AW Drive host Jacqui Felgate has received reports of long hospital wait times on Monday night at a facility in Melbourne’s north.

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“I think it’s a funding emergency, and for years it has [grown] more and more dire,” the 3AW Drive host said.

“But if you live in a growth corridor … you may spend an entire evening on the floor in a chair, in pain, waiting to see a doctor, and that is a third-world system.”

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