Mixed Sex Wards? Oh come on - there won't be any more private or semi-private hospital rooms. You will be on a ward and its going to be with whoever they want to stuff in there. Women and Men together? Its cost-effective. After all - the health care bureaucrats need their year-end bonuses.

And don't you just love the weaselly worded response from the Health Minister. Does it remind you of someone parsing the meaning of the word "is"?