Icy poles used to cool down patients as staff are desperate to bring some chill to sweltering hospital wards in Launceston ... The staff are angry, he said. “We’re relying now on icy poles ...

The staff are angry ... Launceston General Hospital. Picture: Supplied/Rob Burnett Sallyann Geale has watched her father struggle in the heat, he has been a patient in the stroke ward for two ...