Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has ordered a national probe into healthcare worker infections and a new approach to setting mask guidelines | Dana_Adele
Health Minister Greg Hunt has ordered a national probe into healthcare worker infections and a new approach to setting mask guidelines, as COVID-19 clusters grow at two Sydney hospitals and Victoria battles hundreds of active cases in health and aged care.
Eight healthcare workers are among the 12 cases traced to Sydney's Liverpool and Concord Hospitals, while Victoria reported a total of 3360 healthcare worker infections on Wednesday including 252 active cases, not counting those in aged care.The AMA wants higher-grade P2 or N95 respirator masks, not just surgical masks, to be used with all COVID-19 patients and for fit-testing to ensure there are no gaps for viral particles to pass through.
The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee's latest guidelines, based on the advice of its Infection Control Expert Group, are under review but state that surgical masks are sufficient protection for healthcare workers in most hospital and aged care settings. Doctors have complained that the infection control group, chaired by Professor Lyn Gilbert, is dominated by academics without sufficient understanding of the challenges confronting healthcare workers who treat COVID-19 patients on a daily basis.
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