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Frontline doctors and nurses sent into aged care coronavirus crisis speak out – ABC News
Hospital staff say they are being confronted with distressing scenes in aged care homes across Melbourne, and are left feeling helpless due to the “resources and level of support available to them”.
Hospital staff sent in to help Melbourne aged care homes heavily infected with coronavirus say they are being regularly confronted with distressing scenes.
Key points:
- Geriatrician Dr Jesse Zanker said he had to break terrible news to aged care residents and their families every day
- Nurses are sometimes left in tears at the end of their shifts
- Clinical nursing consultant Shane Durance said staff are doing everything they can to care for residents
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