Victorian COVID-19 health workers are still not being provided with the best protective equipment because the numbers required would "burn through the supplies in one week", the state's Chief Medical Officer has said in private meetings leaked to the ABC.
N95 masks fit snugly on the face and provide a higher level of protection from coronavirus than surgical masks. "It's poor leadership, it's unconscionable and it's unethical not to have a continuous uninterrupted supply for our frontline healthcare workers."accounting for around 20 per cent of new COVID cases between in July and AugustA yellow line charts the percentage of cumulative coronavirus cases in Victoria which are in healthcare workers since mid-July, while the blue line shows the number of healthcare worker infections as a percentage of daily cases over seven days.
"There's no doubt that with better PPE, fit-testing and a precautionary approach, much of this wave in health workers could have been prevented," Professor Macintyre said.public assurances in April that Victoria had enough PPE
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Federal guidelines!! Federal Government controls guidelines, the National Stockpile and the TGA FFS! This is NOT something to politicise and blame VIC. EVERY State has had infected HCW’s, when there’s virus in community. NSW currently has it in 2 hospitals and a Dialysis Unit !!!
14 cases today! I think we’ll survive 🙄
Overdue for local PPE manufacturing
Now need more data How many HCW were/are -hospitalised -in ICU -died Over 2400 workplace injuries contributed to by inadequate PPE, driven by national,state guidelines that still don’t advise airborne PPE for HCW caring for all COVID19vic patients rwillingham Jess_Longbottom
Wow does the liberal government have this much control over the ABC?
Just another error in a long line of errors. Our state government and authorities have failed us on so many fronts.
It is nothing less than criminal how the Victorian Health Department have mismanaged the entire crisis. The disaster response should be ceded to NSW and God help us if we don’t....
VictorianCHO didn’t they teach you not manage by FEAR but FACTS? If we are short of PPE best thing to do is replenish the stock,if the price through the roof.we should manufacture our own PPE locally instead of relying on importing. I know we got one place,but we need more!
Buy more, make more- this is one area we can “control”
Cheif medical officer Sutton, has no credibility 'saying he heard about hotel Quarantine in the newspapers' What a load of rot Why lie about it? How dare he tell us yesterday, not to spread rumours. He spreads rumours & flat out lies! Melbournelockdown Australia
Got to hand to the abc if they can kick the boot into Victoria they will. undermining the Victorian government yet again. Are you trying to take number one spot of worst media outlet from sky news?
Well order more!!! What's going on in that place?!
PPE supply has gone through the roof globally. Was tricky early in the year, but our suppliers are now offering unlimited amounts of high quality stuff at pre-pandemic prices. There’s a huge glut
closer to the real scandal. Remember when Dan, Sutton and mikakos stood up for days on end & told us health workers were catching it in the community? Were contact tracers told to record said workers as community transmissions if they said they adhered to workplace guidelines?
Keeping the fear going ABC
Where is our local manufacturing ? Time to resurrect the Made in Australia brand again.
How about just adhering to the guidlines which has not happened throughout this pandemic due to availabiliry of ppe
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