'Breathtaking incompetence': Health Workers Union calls for Premier to sack Health Minister

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'All Victorians are seemingly paying the price for her incompetence,' the letter reads. JennyMikakos melbourne victoria healthcare ...

"She instead referred to scripted notes 'thanking frontline hero health workers for their hard work'.""Since your government's re-election in 2018, we have seen repeated mismanagement of the Victorian health system by Minister Mikakos. All Victorians are seemingly paying the price for her incompetence," the letter reads.

"We are currently in September, and as long as Minister Mikakos and DHHS insist on the existing tiered guidelines to PPE in aged care, it is our view that Victoria will not achieve its infection targets to warrant a return to even Stage 2 lockdowns. Many more deaths in Victorian aged care homes will ensue," she writes.Diana Asmar before the Royal Commission into Aged Care.

"As the minister [Jenny Mikakos] is about to give evidence today it seems inappropriate to preempt the findings of the Coate inquiry," Professor Rait said.

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