Sick man 'waited hours' in Tas hospital

By Ethan James
Updated April 20 2021 - 6:09pm, first published 6:07pm
It took 30 hours for an 87-year-old man to be provided with a bed at Launceston General Hospital.
It took 30 hours for an 87-year-old man to be provided with a bed at Launceston General Hospital.

Tasmania's premier says he was disappointed to hear reports an elderly man with pneumonia waited nine hours on a plastic chair in a hospital emergency waiting room.

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