Health
Royal Melbourne Hospital was forced to close four wards as COVID outbreak hit – WAtoday
The Royal Melbourne Hospital was forced to shut down four of its wards in August in an effort to get on top of spiralling COVID-19 healthcare worker infections.
At the peak of the crisis in early August, so many staff were off sick or in quarantine, remaining staff were experiencing extremely high workloads and care was becoming difficult forcing the hospitals decision to close wards.
We were seeing escalating numbers of infections in healthcare workers. We had implemented as many of the precautions as we could and we were still seeing numbers go up, said associate professor Caroline Marshall, the hospitals head of infection prevention.
It was nurses …
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