South Australian government deals with private hospitals, freeing up public system for more COVID-19 cases

 In a bid to help the state's health system struggling with surging COVID-19 cases, the South Australian government says it has done a deal with private hospitals to secure the equivalent of an entire hospital's worth of beds for public patients.

SA Health Minister Chris Picton said the 107 new beds would be made available to public patients "as soon as possible", after discussions with private hospitals across the state during the past week.

"This means that we can move many of the patients across our system into those beds, freeing more capacity, particularly for COVID patients in our public hospital system," he said.

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