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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Medi-Hotels</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Medi-Hotels</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4841" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Mr PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-02-17">
            <name>Medi-Hotels</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna)</by> (26 November 2020).  (Estimates Committee B)</inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Health and Wellbeing</electorate>
        <text id="20210217f1f25847771e410180001925">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;An attachment to the contract details a range of matters that providers [hotels] must comply with including infection control and required training of staff.</inserted>
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        <text id="20210217f1f25847771e410180001927">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Hotel staff attend training sessions provided by the Infection Control Service and are expected to complete pre-request online infection control pre-learning. This is then followed by a face to face training session which includes PPE donning and doffing and COVID-19 infection control training.</inserted>
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          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;As at 31 October 2020, a direction was issued to all medi-hotel workers preventing them to work across multiple medi-hotel sites, or other high risk areas, such as aged care facilities and metro/regional hospital sites.</inserted>
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        <text id="20210217f1f25847771e410180001929">
          <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;Infection control procedures have been drafted by SA Health.</inserted>
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          <inserted>5.&amp;#x9;Shared hotel facilities are subject to regular cleaning. 'High touch points', such as microwave ovens, are subject to more frequent cleaning. Individual staff are also encouraged to clean shared areas after use and to bring their own utensils or use disposable utensils.</inserted>
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