Exclusive: Infected nurses recalled from isolation in breach of state health protocols ‘working with healthy staff and non-Covid patients’
Covid-positive nurses are being recalled to work in hospitals across New South Wales – in breach of state health protocols – as hospital managers resort to desperate measures to staff facilities buckling under the Omicron outbreak.
Guardian Australia has been contacted by multiple nurses working across several hospitals in the state who are alarmed at finding themselves working alongside Covid-positive colleagues, as 2,500 health workers are in isolation across NSW.
The public hospitals span three local health districts in NSW and include major Sydney hospitals and smaller regional facilities.
All of the nurses say they had received unofficial, verbal advice from their hospitals in recent days that Covid-positive nurses could leave their mandated isolation to work, provided they were asymptomatic and wore personal protective equipment.
READ FULL ARTICLE: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/03/covid-positive-nurses-are-working-in-nsw-hospitals-due-to-severe-staffing-shortages
‘THIS IS CRAZY BUT THEY’RE GOVERNMENT DON’T CARE SMH. HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS ARTICLE? DO YALL HAVE ANY NURSES WHOS GOING THRU THE SAME WAY? LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS DOWN BELOW.
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