Federal authorities were told four months ago aged care centres would struggle to find staff in a coronavirus outbreak, with a confidential report listing the urgent lessons from the first wave of infection | CroweDM
"Early in the outbreak, many carers were unfamiliar with the strict infection prevention and control precautions and/or the working environment, which was stressful and conducive to IPC breaches.Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck said the government had learned from the first outbreaks by putting $101.
Federal Health Department Secretary Brendan Murphy argued last month that authorities could not foresee the sudden withdrawal of most workers from the St Basil's home in Melbourne because it had not happened elsewhere. "We regulate aged care but when there is a public health pandemic, then public health, which, whether it gets into aged care, shopping centres, schools or anywhere else, then they are things that are matters for Victoria," Mr Morrison said.
While Professor Gilbert found there were problems with training in the use of masks and gowns, she also found huge waste from the use of 800 sets of protective equipment per day in the early stages, in a facility with 80 beds.
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