Dr. Steve Thomas questions the Minister for Health regarding antivenom availability at Collie Hospital. The Minister confirms that the hospital has maintained its standard stock of antivenom for brown and tiger snakes and no patients were redirected due to unavailability.

AnsweredQoN 1413Legislative Council
Asked
9 November 2023
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QuestionView source ↗

COLLIE HOSPITAL —
ANTIVENOM
1413. Hon Dr STEVE THOMAS to the Leader of the House
representing the Minister for Health:
I refer to the WA Country Health
Service's Snakebite Management Guideline, current from 25 July 2023. I ask
the following questions as at 7 November 2023.
(1) Has Collie
Hospital had its standard stockholding of one vial of antivenom for brown snake
and one vial of antivenom for tiger snake available for use each day over the
last two months?
(2) If no to (1),
on what dates have the antivenom stocks not been available, and which antivenom
was not in stock?
(3) Have any snakebite victims, with Collie being
their nearest direct hospital, been redirected to Bunbury Hospital at
South West Health Campus due to the unavailability of snake antivenom at Collie
hospital in the last two months?
(4) If yes to (3), on what dates
were the victims redirected and to where?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
(1) Yes.
(2) Not applicable.
(3) No.
(4) Not applicable.

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