Health
More than 700 Frankston Hospital staff in isolation after outbreak – Sydney Morning Herald
Fears are growing for patient care and medical services at the hospital following outbreak which has infected more than 50 staff and sidelined more than 700.
Some speciality surgery units at Frankston Hospital have been left devoid of doctors and nurses, with patients needing assessment or surgery transferred to the The Alfred hospital or Monash Health services.
“It’s obviously extremely concerning,” Australian Medical Association Victorian president Julian Rait said. “There are anxieties around the shortage of staff and the capacity of the hospital to provide its usual services.”
Professor Rait estimated about 3000 people worked at Frankston Hospi…
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