pauly7
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Firstly there are gaps in Australia's plans.A lot of regional Australia is not prepared.One hospital was told to expect 2 Covid positive patients as they were virtually recovered and their beds were needed.They would still need a negative pressure isolation room.The hospital only had one.
even though warned by this action when a possible Covid patient turned up a few days later the ED staff wanted immediate admission as they didn't have enough staff to deal with it-they had more staff than the ward.Obviously no plan was in place.
One of the biggest and easiest to solve gaps would be for Medicare to rebate for video/phone consults with doctors. The federal government could switch it on literally in days.
It would reduce infected patients turning up to clinics and infecting other patients. It would also reduce them infecting healthcare professionals and clinic staff. It would reduce burden on our clinics. It would mean non-infected people with Other health concerns would maybe not need to come in for a physical exam and take that baseload burden off clinics. It would reduce burden on hospitals.
There is not enough protective equipment for our healthcare professionals. This would help with that problem.
Australia is just so slow and far behind in health sometimes, so many countries rebate these consults and now is a great time to turn them on!