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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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Flinders Medical Centre

The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (14:39): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Health and Wellbeing regarding health.

Leave granted.

The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY: In what is well known as one of the greatest public health policy failures in decades, today more than 100 essential workers are walking off the job to highlight serious understaffing at Flinders that has led to breaches in infection control standards. The issues raised by staff at the hospital include—and I quote:

Management directives at the Flinders Medical Centre stopping cleaners from performing all necessary tasks due to understaffing.

Almost 600 unfilled shifts for Patient Services Assistants at Flinders Medical Centre in the past month—equating to an average shortfall of 20 Patient Services Assistants every single day.

Double shifts are regularly being asked of Flinders Medical Centre Patient Services Assistants to make up the shortfalls.

My question to the minister is: what guarantee can the minister provide that there are no infection control breaches at Flinders Medical Centre, which is our state's dedicated COVID hospital for pregnant women?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:40): I can assure the honourable member that Flinders Medical Centre, like all SA Health facilities, has a very clear infection control framework, which, as I indicated earlier, they are required to account for in the accreditation process.

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Wortley has a supplementary.

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