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Metro Tunnel
Trains will need slower speeds beneath Parkville to protect hospitals
Leaked documents detail a need for a slower pace in the Metro Tunnel near the new Parkville station to limit interference with nearby specialist health equipment.
- by Clay Lucas and Kieran Rooney
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More than one million doctors go on strike in India
India’s medical workers held a countrywide strike to protest the rape and killing of a trainee doctor – but the nation’s reckoning with sexual violence against women is longstanding.
- by Sheikh Saaliq
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Healthcare
Patients told to drink water as hospitals ration IV drips
An internal Victorian Department of Health document calls on health services to conserve 14 intravenous fluid products at risk of shortages.
- by Henrietta Cook and Jewel Topsfield
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Healthcare
Parkville locks in 400 hospital beds, but replacement of Arden’s pledged 1800 still up in the air
Victoria has appointed a builder for the first stage of its Parkville medical precinct upgrade. But there’s a long way to go to match a 2022 election promise.
- by Broede Carmody
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Healthcare
Labor is hurting under Jacinta Allan. It had to do something about hospitals
The premier’s decision to soften a planned revamp of health services has exposed other problems that will be tougher to fix.
- by Kieran Rooney
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Healthcare
Hunger Games hospitals: Victoria’s radical health shake-up sparks fears
Victoria’s health system is ‘no longer fit for purpose’, as the government announces an overhaul that will avoid mergers but centralise staff and services.
- by Rachel Eddie, Broede Carmody, Jewel Topsfield and Kieran Rooney
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Illness
The four NSW hospitals grappling with skin disease outbreak
People potentially at risk of an outbreak of scabies which has broken out across multiple hospitals in the Illawarra Shoalhaven area are being traced.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Babies
The one thing mothers can donate to help save premature babies’ lives
Just seven mothers are booked in to donate breast milk used to protect premature babies from deadly infections, with high rates of cold and flu almost wiping out the regular donor base.
- by Kate Aubusson
A vitamin through the vein? Why IV drips are surging in popularity
Vitamin infusion drips promising “biohacking”, hangover cures and stress reduction are surging in popularity amid a dire global shortage of intravenous fluids.
- by Amber Schultz
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Healthcare
Hundreds of staff underpaid by private healthcare provider
Healthscope, one of Australia’s largest private hospital operators, is making remediation payments after estimating it underpaid staff by $21.7 million.
- by Jewel Topsfield and Henrietta Cook
Doctors asked to cut back on IV fluids amid ‘extreme’ global shortage
NSW Health has warned the state’s supply of intravenous fluids is critical as doctors say they may be forced to cancel some non-urgent surgeries.
- by Kate Aubusson and Angus Thomson