The clarification comes after BuzzFeed News revealed up to 80 women on surgical abortion lists around Australia were waiting in limbo.
Australia's biggest abortion provider Marie Stopes Australia resorted to calling the COVID-19 hotline in an attempt to find answers for its patients as health departments were not responding.
Prime minister Scott Morrison announced on Wednesday that all elective surgery, other than Category 1 and urgent Category 2 cases would be suspended during this pandemic. The spokesperson added that states and territories have their own elective surgery access policies, which would affect how all procedures are triaged and prioritised in hospitals.
Fly-in-fly-out workers are common in abortion provision as some clinics in regional or remote areas only open one day a week and local staff can be hard to find in regions where there are several conscientious objectors.
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