Regional emergency departments are overcrowded and risking patient safety, doctors say

>Ballarat Base Hospital ED doctor David* said patients having to wait more than 40 hours in ED for a bed on the ward "wasn't uncommon".

>He said it was normal for ED patients to overflow into corridors or unmonitored waiting rooms, where there was a risk they could deteriorate.

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