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Speaker 1: Now Leah, we know that this week, well, Parliament was

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Speaker 1: In the first instance, she said that there is obviously

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Speaker 1: you know, well I can't remember her exact woods, but

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Speaker 1: it was a discussion about mental health beds.

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Speaker 2: We've been told as well.

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Speaker 1: About well about those mental health beds and they're really

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Speaker 2: Enough of them.

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Speaker 1: But I also know that out at Royal sorry, out

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Speaker 1: with the Health Minister that ward that Renal Ward is

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Speaker 2: So that'll be over two weeks.

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Speaker 4: I would suggest now absolutely that's in a tremendous amount

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Speaker 4: of pressure to play the role of Darwin Hospital and

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Speaker 4: you know, you know, we've got a lockdown right now

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Speaker 4: if things were to get out of control, which we

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Speaker 4: of course no one wants to see and we're.

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Speaker 3: Looking forward to you know, hopefully good news from the

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Speaker 3: Chief Minister today, but we can't have a hospital in

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Speaker 3: crisis when we're also dealing with a global pandemic. We've

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Speaker 3: also heard from ambulances of course during lockdown, paramedics are

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Speaker 3: having to deal with a whole new range of protocols

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Speaker 3: is not the first time that our hospital has been

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Speaker 3: in code yellow. It's twice this year. We've already seen

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Speaker 3: both code yellow numbers and to have Parmesan Hospital partially

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Speaker 3: to the health of territories and we all know, you know,

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Speaker 3: there were a lot of people whose elective surgeries were

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Speaker 3: postponed and canceled as a result of that. It just

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Speaker 3: creates a lot of inconvenience, but pain and suffering for

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Speaker 3: people as well. You know, at the end of the

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Speaker 3: day helps. It's about you know, it's about your body

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Speaker 3: having to suffer, you know, alone or at home, it

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Speaker 3: gets very very challenging. So something that needs to be

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Speaker 3: dealt with quickly.

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Speaker 1: Well, Leah fanocchiiro the opposition leader, we are going to

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Speaker 1: have to leave it there. I'll be very interested to

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Speaker 1: hear some of those answers that you get back tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you let us know how you go.

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Speaker 3: Don't worry, Katie, You'll be the first person I crawled

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Speaker 3: good on your lead.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate everyone. Thank you,