FED: Australian hospitals "coped - just" with the swine flu

AAP General News (Australia)
04-22-2010
FED: Australian hospitals "coped - just" with the swine flu

An intensive care unit doctor says Australian hospitals have coped with the swine flu
.. but only just.

Sydney-based Dr IAN SEPPELT says at the peak of last winter's outbreak .. the system
was stretched almost to the point of turning people away.

He says swine flu accounted for up to 20 per cent of all patients in the nation's major
intensive care units.

Officials say 191 deaths were recorded in Australia .. that are formally attributed
to the swine flu since the nation's first case was detected on May 9 in 2009.

AAP RTV dr/it/wz/af

KEYWORD: FLU YEAR (SYDNEY)

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