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state political reporter Adam Langenberg

Million-dollar cancer treatment equipment to 'lie idle' at Tasmanian hospital due to lack of staff

Health staff warn crucial cancer treatment equipment at the North West Regional Hospital will be forced to sit idle because of a lack of staff available to operate it.

In correspondence seen by the ABC, a senior health employee said short-staffing meant one of two linear accelerators, used to deliver beam radiation treatment to cancer patients, would have to be shut down as of the end of this week.

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