Brad Hazzard rejects emergency doctors’ claim NSW health system is ‘third-world’

State health minister says evidence given to inquiry that patients wait up to 36 hours to see a doctor are rubbish'

The New South Wales health minister has rejected criticism of the state's healthcare system as third-world" by doctors speaking at a parliamentary inquiry.

Brad Hazzard dismissed some of the comments made by emergency medical experts on Wednesday. The doctors had been quizzed at an inquiry hearing about war zone" conditions in public hospitals that remain under pandemic stress.

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