"Waiting list for Orthopaedic surgery"

A few weeks ago, my elderly parent was admitted to another hospital's emergency department three separate times in the space of a week, due to severe pain caused by advanced osteoarthritis in their left knee. They have been shuffled around from Acute Management Unit to Geriatric Unit to St John of God’s Restorative Unit, all giving my parent pain medication because they simply can’t sit up or move without experiencing severe pain.

It's been a few weeks, and you would think that with the lack of beds in hospitals at the moment I believe, that they would try to expedite my parent on the waitlist to see a surgeon and undergo surgery soon so to make room for others asap. They are still in the Restorative Unit at SJOG Mt Lawley lying on their back and they cannot go to the bathroom without assistance or experiencing severe pain even with their pain medication. My parent is just suffering in the public system.