Urgent surgeries are being postponed because of major hospital bed shortages in the Australian state of Victoria, according to medical experts, who say patients will have to make way for COVID-19 cases. Last week, Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley announced that non-urgent surgeries would be postponed due to the COVID-19 caseload, meaning only Category 1 surgeries (those that must be treated within 30 days) or Category 2A surgeries (90 days) would be performed. However, Jill Tomlinson, board member of the Australian Medical Association in Victoria, said even the most critical surgeries were being postponed because of a lack of intensive care or general ward beds. “We can certainly predict in the coming weeks that there will be a much greater number of patients, who there would have been a bed for the Category One surgery, will be postponed and rescheduled,” she told The Age newspaper. “We just have to hope …