What is going on when prisoners have four heavily armed police escorts and get priority at Canberra Hospital Emergency Department over normal patients.

Didn’t they lose that right when they were locked up? Why don’t they have a timeframe between midnight and dawn? I as a patient don’t want to be exposed to that kind of riff-raff.

They don’t prioritise the disabled or the veterans over normal patients but they prioritise prisoners over everyone!

They turn up at anytime and always get in straight away be it on a gurney or handcuffed and walking and talking. Why do they need four heavily armed guards? Do the AFP expect Houdini? What a waste of resources.

I am disgusted, I see it time and time again; they should come last no matter what!

• B O’Shaughnessy (Exhausted Patient), Campbell

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