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    In 2007, more than half of the State population was overweight or obese, an increase of almost 10 per cent since 1997. Weight gain can have devastating effects on the individual, causing diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. It also carries with it a financial burden, costing the State Government billions of dollars each year.

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    In 2007, more than half of the State population was overweight or obese, an increase of almost 10 per cent since 1997. Weight gain can have devastating effects on the individual, causing diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. It also carries with it a financial burden, costing the State Government billions of dollars each year.

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    Hospital Buckles Under The Strain of Obesity: Inside The Village Voice

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    In 2007, more than half of the State population was overweight or obese, an increase of almost 10 per cent since 1997. Weight gain can have devastating effects on the individual, causing diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. It also carries with it a financial burden, costing the State Government billions of dollars each year.

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    Hospital buckles under the strain of obesity

    By Lauren Farrow
    help lift patients, but they were de-
    Australia’s widening waist bands signed for around the 100 kilogram
    are putting added strain on the local mark.”
    health system, with St Vincent’s To deal with this, more staff were
    Hospital feeling the added burden needed to lift the patient.
    all the way from the ambulance to “It chews up a lot of resources
    the mortuary. and a lot of time,” he said.
    While weight gain can have dev- Further down the hospital line,
    astating effects on the individual, Dr Adrienne Morey, the head of an-
    causing diabetes, heart disease and atomical pathology at St Vincent’s
    some cancers, it also carries with it hospital, said more problems were
    a financial burden, costing the State caused when deceased patients
    Government billions of dollars each needed to be moved to the mortu-
    year. ary.
    In 2007, NSW Health reported Usually, deceased patients were
    more than half of the State popu- transported through the hospital in
    lation was overweight or obese, an concealment trolleys for discretion-
    increase of almost 10 per cent since ary purposes.
    1997. But Dr Morey said larger patients
    Professor Gordian Fulde, head of could not fit in these trolleys or the
    emergency at St Vincent’s Hospital Post mortem assistant Andrew Pledger at the fridge doors in St Vincent’s mortuary’s fridge doors.
    in Darlinghurst, said this increase hospital mortuary. Dr Adrienne Morey says these doors are occasionally not “I recall quite recently that we
    was putting pressure on everything wide enough to accommodate larger patients, a problem the mortuary staff is had to keep someone chilled,” Dr
    from diagnosis to equipment. increasingly challenged by in the current obesity epidemic. Morey said.
    “The whole process is just really, “We had to pack the person with
    really difficult . . . It’s a major prob- there’s so much fat.” problems for staff handling obese ice because we could not fit them in
    lem,” Professor Fulde said. MRI scanners, which require patients, Professor Fulde said. the fridge,” he said.
    “Just simple things, like taking patients to pass through a narrow “We have beds that have a toler- Professor Fulde said that people
    someone’s blood, is becoming diffi- entry, were also not big enough to ance of 150 kilograms but now we should focus on reducing their body
    cult,” he said. house larger patients. are starting to get patients over 150 size, rather than spending more on
    “Veins are hard to get to because Then there were the day-to-day kilograms. We have devices that will equipment for larger patients.

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