Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
2020-04-28 Daily Xml

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Royal Adelaide Hospital

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:33): A supplementary arising from the original answer and to clarify: is there a barrier to creating a dedicated lift so that cancer patients wouldn't have to be in the same physical individual lift as a COVID-19 patient?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:34): Sorry, I think I am understanding the member's question now: would it be possible to dedicate one of the series of lifts to only COVID-19 patients? I don't think that would be feasible. I could reference how many people went through the Royal Adelaide Hospital for COVID clinic testing yesterday but I imagine it would be in the order of 200 or so. There are many hundreds of people who go to the hospital every day and, considering that, as I understand the honourable member's question, a lift has been dedicated for staff, to dedicate it to a whole series of dedicated streams I doubt would be feasible, but I will certainly put that to the hospital and see what advice I can get for the honourable member.