On Thursday the Central Western Daily reported Ms Farr and her mother Deidre had arrived in Sydney on their way to Royal North Shore hospital the previous week when they received a phone call to say the surgery had been cancelled due to the number of emergencies at the hospital.

At the time, Deidre told the CWD insufficient funding for the hospital had contributed to the delays, with scheduled surgeries having to take a backseat to emergencies.

Louanda spent several hours in surgery to repair damaged lower back discs and will spend the next week in Royal North Shore.

Deidre said having to call any hospital hours before admission to check if surgeries could go ahead wasn’t an efficient system, placing an unnecessary burden on doctors, nurses, hospital staff and patients.

“I just want to say again I feel so sorry for the staff in hospitals trying to juggle the situation day in and day out,” she said.

“Why can’t the government just give hospitals sufficient funding to have enough teams and theatres open as possible and be done with it, because in the end all it does is create a backlog.”

Deidre said she and her daughter were grateful for the medical expertise and care at the hospital.

“We don’t want to appear as whingers,” she said.

“If my daughter was able to be privately insured I would do that in a heartbeat to help take the pressure of the public system, but unfortunately due to her complex medical conditions no private health scheme will take her on,” Deidre said.

janice.harris@fairfaxmedia.com.au