Doctors blast 'perverse' rejection of zero healthcare worker deaths target | Dana_Adele
Doctors concerned about the risk to hospital staff of the coronavirus are calling on the NSW and Victorian governments to commit to a target of zero healthcare worker deaths from COVID-19, as the number of infected workers continues to climb.
"It's up to every one of us to ensure we each do our part to slow the spread and keep each other safe," she said. NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard declined to comment, but a spokeswoman for his department said there had been "no cases among [the state's] healthcare workers in the past three weeks" and staff safety was "of the utmost importance"., saying: "Our goal has to be zero deaths amongst our nurses and our doctors".
Dr Veness said the zero death target should "lay the basis of a workplace safety improvement plan that supports achievement of this target". Infectious disease expert Raina MacIntyre, head of the biosecurity research program at the University of NSW's Kirby Institute, published a paper in the"Our health workers are a precious asset, and warrant the highest protection – not simply for their occupational health and safety, but for a functional and resilient health system," Professor MacIntyre wrote in the paper.
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