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New mental health patients in Tasmania's north to be sent to Hobart amid COVID outbreaks

A union official said the hospital system "has had over a year to plan for such a situation". (ABC News: Luke Bowden)

Sitting by the bedside of a loved one who is suffering from mental illness is something Tasmanian mother Debbie O'Neill has experienced many times.

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