Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg said a major north Queensland hospital was on Tuesday unable to find beds for 24 people.
Townsville Hospital reportedly declared a "code yellow", using ambulances as makeshift beds and cancelling elective surgery for Wednesday and Thursday.
The crisis came on the same day as the government extended its Health Action Plan, designed to improve the health system, with the five-point Advancing Health Action plan, Springborg said.
"How long do you have to masterplan before you actually do anything?" he said.
Opposition health spokesman Mark McArdle said central Queensland health services were also in crisis, with Aramac Hospital's 22 staff on Tuesday told the facility would be downgraded to a health centre.
In addition, problems on the Sunshine Coast, where Nambour Hospital was on bypass on Tuesday with 24 emergency patients waiting, and in Cairns, where patients have complained about golden staph, also emerged in parliament.
McArdle said it was "incredible hypocrisy" for the government to shed a rural hospital on the same day it was lauding a new health plan.
"Aramac is again a symptom of the larger malaise that is impacting across Queensland Health," McArdle told reporters in Brisbane on Wednesday.
"Add all these issues together you still find that 10 years after being in government the health crisis continues to roll out, unfortunately, day in, day out."
Barcaldine mayor Robert Chandler said the decision would "gut" Aramac - removing 22 families that support the town's school and businesses.
"I'm not much of a politician, but I do know that the government of the day has a ... community service obligation, to look after all Queenslanders, and that goes for the little places like Aramac with 300 people," Chandler said.
But Health Minister Stephen Robertson said the 10-bed facility had only 12 overnight admissions over the past 12 months.
"It's hardly a hospital now when we haven't had a full-time doctor there for the last four years because we can't attract a full-time doctor there," Robertson told reporters.
"What we want to do is find a new model of care that will deliver health services for the people of Aramac and stop this charade about pretending that they have a fully functioning hospital, because they clearly don't."
Robertson said Townsville's problems were caused by 22 nurses calling in sick with the flu and additional staff were being sought.
"Winter always is our busiest time, but staff sickness hasn't helped on this occasion, along with an increase in the number of elderly patients presenting to the hospital," he said.
Robertson denied the health system was still failing, despite the government's efforts.
"People carry on calling it a third-world health system, that it's in crisis - that's nonsense," he said.
"If it was in crisis, we wouldn't be able to treat record numbers of patients, we'd be going backwards, and that is not the case on every indices."
