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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tamsin Rose

Long delays for elective surgery in NSW take their toll ahead of winter ‘disaster’

Madoc and his mother Kelsey Boivin
Madoc and his mother Kelsey Boivin were sent home from hospital on the day of his surgery due to a shortage of ICU beds. Photograph: Supplied

Tuesday’s planned tongue surgery was supposed to leave three-year-old Madoc breathing a little easier.

Instead, he returned home after the procedure was postponed for the second time in 10 months. A surgeon at the Westmead children’s hospital told his distraught mother, Kelsey Boivin, that it could not go ahead as there were no ICU beds left.

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