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Elderly Patients Moved from Hospital Beds
to Make Way for Minogue
Associated Press
Australia
June 2, 2005
A number of elderly heart patients were moved from their beds to clear the way for pop diva Kylie Minogue as she underwent breast cancer surgery last month, a newspaper reported Thursday.
Minogue was given eight out of 18 rooms in the hospital's cardiac ward, apparently chosen because it was the most secluded area of the building, The Herald Sun newspaper reported.
The night before the pop music superstar arrived at Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini Hospital in the southern city of Melbourne, an unspecified number of patients were moved from their beds to make way for Minogue and several members of her family, the paper said.
A doctor, who was not named, told the paper the incident was "distressing and very inappropriate."
"Several people were severely inconvenienced. I was very surprised that eight beds were given to one patient with a non-cardiac condition," the doctor was quoted as saying.
A spokeswoman for the hospital, Jackie Meiers, said no patients were compromised as a result of the singer's stay.
Calls to hospital management went unanswered Thursday.
Minogue recently celebrated her 37th birthday with family and friends in her hometown Melbourne, where she is recovering after undergoing surgery on May 20 to remove a tumour from her breast.
Minogue was in Melbourne to perform her Showgirl tour when the cancer was diagnosed days before the surgery. The Australian and Asian legs of her tour have been postponed indefinitely.
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