A Vietnam veteran has been forced to spend the night in a hospital corridor while waiting for brain surgery, in yet another example of the dire state of WA’s over-stretched hospital system.
Malcolm Sweetman, 79, was put into a ward corridor at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on Sunday afternoon, the night before an urgent operation to remove a golf ball-sized brain tumour.
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