Health
‘Ants crawling from wounds’: horrifying scenes at coronavirus-hit aged care home in Melbourne – The Guardian
Exclusive: video and pictures show resident left with ants crawling over bloodied bandages on her legs as staff report dreadful conditions
Horrific footage of a 95-year-old woman left to languish in a Melbourne aged care facility struck by Covid-19 shows ants crawling from a wound on her leg, and the bandages around it crusted with blood.
The footage and photos, described by the federal aged care minister as heartbreaking, were taken inside Kalyna Care, a private residential home in Melbournes north-west, on Tuesday, some two weeks after the virus was first identified in one staff member.
The woman, known to her family as Milka, …
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