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Victorian healthcare workers continue to face shortages of PPE as coronavirus cases ramp up – ABC News
Healthcare workers continue to struggle to get hold of personal protective equipment and fear they may be facing even more shortages as cases climb and the Victorian Government recommends everyone in the state starts using masks.
Victorian healthcare workers are yet again appealing for more urgent action to boost supplies of personal protective equipment as the number of coronavirus cases in hospitals and aged care facilities continues to climb.
Key points:
- Staff from hospitals, aged care and disability are reporting ongoing shortages of personal protective equipment at work
- Unions are worried the shortages are putting their members at risk of contracting the virus and passing it onto patients
- It comes as a growing number of people linked to hospital and aged care facilities in Victoria contract coronavirus
Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said he predicted the number of hospitalisations and deaths from COVID-19 would soon get much worse.
“We will see an increase in hospitalised and ICU cases, and in deaths, in the coming days because of the spike that we have seen in recent days,” he said at a press conference on Friday.
“It is because we’re seeing people who are most vulnerable, the elderly, those with chronic illness, coming down with
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