Victoria calls on 400 extra health workers to combat rising Covid hospitalisations

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Premier, Daniel Andrews, announces a $162m package to fund specialist staff across 12 hospitals as Covid-related absentee rates climb

More than 10,000 Victorian health staff were off work sick over the first week of July alone, according to the state government.

Other new measures include setting up new paediatric GP respiratory clinics at the Royal Children’s hospital and Monash Children’s hospital, and a trial to use some private hospital EDs and acute beds to treat public patients. Chief medical officer Paul Kelly gave a “sobering” report on the challenges Australia faces in coming months and years, with leaders committing to meet more regularly.

Opposition leader, Matthew Guy, continued to blame the premier for the state’s buckling health system, saying the government had months to plan for winter.

 

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Hmmm... Better fire more of them for non-compliance with mandates that didn't work anyway. That fixed it last time. Right?

We are 10s of thousands short across the hospital system and Dans getting us 400? Forgive me if I don’t stand and clap with everyone else. Yet another shiny red press release and people thinking he’s doing a great job. It doesnt even cover those we lost through the mandates

So not really recruiting 400 new staff, just redistributing existing staff

Um where is this staff coming from? We're not an inexhaustible commodity. For every 400 recruited another 400 are leaving the health service.

They can work with patients in those 4,000 beds Dan promised So that’ll be 1 imaginary worker to every 10 imaginary bed

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Just not unvaxxd ones.

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