The doctor charged with looking after 70-year-old Kenny Watson says she has been made a scapegoat by WA health authorities
"The problem is that we still hadn't been receiving the PPE that the Health Department had been promising us, so I couldn't really do anything more than what the paramedic had done and stand across the corridor," the doctor said.
Breaking down the latest news and research to understand how the world is living through an epidemic, this is the ABC's Coronacast. "When I heard this story, I was like: 'What! This is really bad and I better call the ambulance right now.'"WA Health said it had requested Healthcare Australia make changes to their rostered personnel, saying the organisation"was not meeting the expectations of the state".Monday would have been Ray Daniels's 74th birthday. But instead of celebrating, his Perth family are mourning their husband and father.
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