Two Sydney nurses have unknowingly savaged NSW Health Minister Ryan Park who was nearly barred from entering a hospital ward, before he was mistaken as his predecessor Brad Hazzard.
Sharing the story on TikTok, Kaille – a nurse in Sydney’s Upper North Shore – said she was told by a trauma nurse there was “a minister,” who wanted to “visit patients”.
However she mistook the senior politician for a religious ‘minister,’ and went boot him from the ward.
“It was nine o’clock at night, we hadn’t called a minister and I thought a minister had walked in off the street and start preaching, or just go and talk to a dying person,” she said.
“I went out and was like: ‘Hi, you can’t come in’. For starters, we don’t know the people’s religion. I do have no palliative person here, but it doesn’t sat what religion he is and his family members not here.
“He then goes … I’m the Minister of Health.”
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