Saturday, August 30, 2008
Build it and they will come
The Queensland health system seems to lurch from one crisis to another.
The lack of hospital beds is again in the news as patients are forced to spend hours in hospital corridors waiting for an available bed, sometimes for several days.
My jaw hot the floor though when I heard our esteemed health minister indicate that the shortage of hospital beds and the strain on the health system was partly because of the substantial increase in infrastructure undertaken by the government. He made the preposterous claim that because of this increase in facilities more people were using seeking treatment.
Can you imagine? There is an expansion at the local hospital, let's go and get ourselves admitted so we can check it out.
Gotta love those politicians and their "spin".
"You can't coach that"
