Life during the COVID-19 pandemic has become a little harder across the NSW Northern River region......
ABC News,
12 August 2020:
A
senior doctor at a major hospital on the New South Wales north coast
says the closure of the Queensland border is a "political
stunt".
Chris
Ingall, an executive on the Medical Staff Council at the Lismore Base
Hospital, said the health service was "scrambling" to cope
with the effects on patients & staff, who must quarantine for 14
days if they enter Queensland from outside the so-called border
bubble in the Tweed Shire.
"You've
got over 100 doctors that work at Lismore Base Hospital that live in
Queensland; they are no longer available to us because they don't
want to leave their families & not get back," he said.
"So
we are scrambling for doctors, anaesthetists, emergency doctors, a
lot of the frontline doctors who are no longer going to be able to
support Lismore Base Hospital."
Dr
Ingall said it was having a significant impact on the risk posed to
residents in the Northern Rivers.
"This
doesn't need to happen at all from a medical perspective because
there is no community transmission in the Northern Rivers," he
said.....
Queensland
has relaxed its border restrictions for people "entering to
obtain specialist health care, or as a support person to a person
obtaining specialist health care, that cannot be obtained at their
place of residence".
But
those entering from beyond the border bubble will have to go into
government-provided quarantine for 14 days.
The
cost for an adult is $2,800; one adult and one child is $3,255.
People
classified as vulnerable or who can prove financial hardship can
apply to have the fees waived.....
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