Editor’s note on yesterday’s story: Just four people hospitalised after Medevac transfer.

Readers have raised questions about the figures quoted in the article.

The number in the headline was based on evidence given by Department of Home Affairs Secretary Mike Pezzullo.

He told a Senate inquiry on Monday: “Of the 111 transferees [made under the Medevac laws], even though the assessment from the two treating doctors was ‘in-patient care required’… four persons have been hospitalised.