500 Victorians Die Each Year Waiting For Surgery
About 500 Victorians are dying each year while waiting for surgery, The Age reports today. Doccuments obtained under Freedom of Information laws showed that 1507 people were removed from waiting lists in the last three financial years because they had died. The Royal Australian College of Surgeons is urging the government to investigate the figures. While not all the people on the list died because they didn’t have their operation, some, like the 29 people who needed cardiac surgery, almost certainly did.
DEATHS BEFORE SURGERY
YEAR NUMBER
- 2002-03 504
- 2003-04 527
- 2004-05 476
NUMBER OF DEATHS BY SPECIALITY
- Urology 395
- Opthamology 339
- General Surgery 247
- Orthopedic 197
- Plastic 144
- Vascular 71
- Ear, nose and throat 38
- Cardio-thoracic 29
Source: Department of Human Services, quoted in The Age, 23/5/06
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