A Melbourne mum has shared her alarming experience at the Royal Children’s Hospital last month.

Irene took her five-year-old son, who has cyclic vomiting syndrome, to the emergency room on November 10, where they waited for eight hours before a doctor told everyone in the emergency room to go home because they wouldn’t be seen that night.

“They said they were understaffed, only one side of emergency was open, the other side was closed because they didn’t have enough doctors,” she told Tony Jones, filling in for Neil Mitchell.

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Irene’s son’s specialist found a private hospital bed for the five-year-old the next day and attended the hospital to treat him personally that evening.

“We were told that within hours he would be dead,” Irene told Tony Jones, filling in for Neil Mitchell.

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