Last week, health ministers from Australia’s eight states and territories asked for immediate additional funding from the federal government to inject more resources into public hospitals as the country reopens:
“States and territories are under unrelenting strain due to the current Covid-19 demands and the pre-existing trend of increased hospital activity,” the ministers said in a letter to federal health minister Greg Hunt.
“We are entering into the most critical phase of the Covid-19 pandemic response for our hospital systems.
