Canberra emergency department wait times are the worst in the country, but the Health Minister says she’ll fix it in nine months

It took five hours for Kathryn Harradine’s six-month-old son Andy to be treated for a lung infection at Canberra Hospital’s emergency department.

The excruciating wait for the Canberra mum was difficult to endure, but not an uncommon tale.

Fewer than half of Canberra’s emergency department (ED) patients are seen within clinically recommended times — they should be discharged or admitted within four hours of presenting.

But when Andy, who spent time in neonatal…