“A person who worked for DHHS told me they had specifically called this guest in the room and told them that they needed to stop threatening suicide just so they can get a cigarette,” Jen said this week.She rang the patient to no avail and waited an agonising five minutes before calling back again. After a second call went unanswered, she donned a mask, goggles, gown and gloves and did a physical check, fortunately finding the person unharmed, but anxious and distressed.
What remains a mystery, though, is how the virus escaped into the community, investigators coming up short on the precise moment of transmission. “There was never anyone formally identified as being in charge,” he said. One day, the chaos turned dangerous, he said, when a large intake streamed into the Mercure Welcome hotel foyer, which was not “fit for purpose”.Source:Supplied
Jen the nurse, whose surname cannot be published, said “problem guests” had their names listed on a mysterious whiteboard in the DHHS boardroom.
So does Dan Andrews take responsibility for all these mishandlings, or does he blame someone else again? Who is responsible for Victorian Hotel Quarantine? Not Dan Andrews?