MILDURA Base Public Hospital's emergency department remains under pressure as a bad flu season continues, but it has so far been able to manage the load without a return to emergency status.

It was revealed on Friday that health services in four other regional Victorian centres had this week declared a "code yellow" emergency status, allowing them to close or limit normal services and redirect resources to manage exceptionally high workloads.

The Herald Sun newspaper reported that at least nine regional hospitals, including Mildura's, had been forced into the use of the code yellow status in recent months.

A spokesman for Mildura Base Public Hospital, however, said its use of a code yellow on May 19 had been temporary and it had been able to maintain normal services since.

The spokesperson said the emergency department was continuing to feel the pressure, "but we are coping well".

Public support was still needed, however, to stop the ED being overwhelmed.

"We want to remind people again, if they do not have an emergency and can seek alternative treatment through Nurse on Call, their GP or one of the many other alternative services available, we ask them to consider these options," the spokesperson said.

The Mildura code yellow was called last month because the hospital had no more beds available and was unable to accept new patients without reorganising space and resources.

Every available medical space, including an operating theatre, was temporarily converted to ward space to accommodate new patients.

At the same time, people presenting to the ED faced waits of up to 13 hours to see a clinician.

The hospital created a digital dashboard that provided the public with constantly updated ED waiting times and it remains active and accessible at the hospital's Facebook page. On Friday afternoon, it showed waiting times of between one and two hours.