Eastern Victoria Region
Ms BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:55): (1608) My question is to the Minister for Health. This is on behalf of a constituent who has lived with debilitating pain with respect to a hip replacement since 2020. He has lived on painkillers from the start of 2021—morphine patches; 24-hour painkillers. His health deteriorated to the extent with that 24-hour pain that he lost 18 kilograms. His surgery had been cancelled four times in 12 months, to a point where his fantastic local doctors and the surgeon deemed that it was not elective surgery; it was actually life-threatening and he needed to have that surgery completed. So he did—the surgeon pushed him through and he was able to get that right at the end of last year. He is sick and he is recovering. Minister, why is Victoria still in a code brown situation?