Important elective surgeries have resumed in Victoria’s regional public and private hospitals and will start in metropolitan Melbourne from the end of September.
Premier Daniel Andrews and Health Minister Jenny Mikakos unveiled the way forward for the state’s ‘safe and staged’ resumption of elective surgery, in line with the State Government’s broader roadmaps for reopening and public health advice.
Elective-surgery activity in regional Victoria will increase to 85 percent from September 28, when hospitals in metropolitan Melbourne will begin to ramp up to 75 percent of usual activity.
All Victorian hospitals will move to 100 percent of usual activity when the state moves from the last step to ‘COVID normal’, planned for November 23.