‘Lot of shuffling’: More COVID wards open in Sydney’s hotspots as staff redeployed | marywardy lucy_carroll
Hospitals in Sydney’s hotspots are opening new COVID-19 wards and scaling back some specialties this week as the state’s system prepares to care for nearly 3500 patients at once by the end of October.
A NSW Health spokesperson said healthcare workers had been moved from elsewhere to assist in hotspot areas since the start of the latest outbreak without compromising patient care. “We do not have a supply of unemployed healthcare workers – we likely need to divert people from other things.” An open letter signed by 569 intensive care nurses across the state and addressed to Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Tuesday asked for NSW Health to maintain a ratio of one nurse per ventilated patient.
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