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Richard Willingham, ABC Investigations

Victims of violent crime forced to wait for forensic examinations in Victoria due to 'dire' shortage of doctors

Victorian victims of sexual assault are being forced to wait in bloodied and soiled clothes, sometimes for more than a day, to see specialist forensic doctors.

On some nights in Melbourne, a city of 5 million people, there are no forensic doctors available to see victims of violent crime, in a situation experts have labelled "dire".

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