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Some patients were not allocated dates for urgent procedures after an email bungle at a hospital. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)
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Farid Farid

Urgent surgeries delayed as 3000 hospital emails unread

Health authorities have been left scrambling to schedule urgent surgeries after a hospital inbox was found to contain thousands of unread emails.

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