Would any one suggest me what to do in this situation.

bub born on 1 of January 2013.as I was recovering from my c section it took me a while to fill out the form and by the time we got birth certificate it took us around three weeks to submit the form ( that orange form which hospital gave)

now I called to centerlink they received our form three weeks ago,the lady i spoke to said it will take five weeks to get form processed and then they are going to pass it on to medicare.

I called medicare office and told to take the birth certificate of child with your medicare card and Australian passport and ask for the bubs enrolment. we did that but the customer service provider was adamant to site the hospital form ( which we have already posted to Canberra centerlink).she said she can't do anything unless we present the form.she said wait till centerlink process the file.

My child needs to see the docs and for immunization and my gps clinic is charging me 70$ because we don't have medicare card for him.


is there any other way to get the medicare , has any one been in such situation. I simply have no clue how long it will take. ( i don't think hospital would provide me duplicate copy of form if I request them)