After weeks trying to get an answer from Queensland Health on a home quarantine application after brain surgery in Sydney, David Jonsson received the first response two hours after leaving ICU.
A Toowoomba man says he has been denied home quarantine after undergoing brain surgery in Sydney, despite advice from his surgeon he should be allowed to recover and rehabilitate at home.Mr Jonsson is in quarantine in a Brisbane hotel after undergoing brain surgery in Sydney in late AugustQueensland Health says health and support services are available at all quarantine hotels
He requested an exemption to be able to quarantine at his home, 130 kilometres west of Brisbane, to make his post-surgery rehabilitation and care more manageable.Mr Jonsson said he did not receive the first response until two hours after leaving ICU."I received a phone call from someone from [Queensland Chief Health Officer] Jeanette Young's office," he said.
"When the lady realised I'd only come out of ICU, and was under some pretty heavy medication, she decided it probably wasn't best to continue the conversation, and from that point I didn't hear anything back."Mr Jonsson said he finally received confirmation his application was denied after landing in Brisbane more than two weeks post-surgery and almost a month since first submitting the paperwork.
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