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Doctors are calling for Australian governments to bring back mask mandates and density limits as leaders prepare to meet to discuss the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
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Serious illnesses like cancer will go undetected with more GPs and private specialists refusing to see patients in person because of a lack of specialised face masks as COVID spreads in South Australia, doctors warn.
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Doctors are “confused” about conflicting modelling showing the estimated spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalisation rates once South Australia opens its borders, saying Government-commissioned data released today appears to contradict SA Health estimates presented to them last week.
Public hospitals are caught in an unending cycle of crisis caused by a funding formula which has failed to arrest a decline in performance over a decade, the Australian Medical Association says in a new report.
Potential “life-saving” laws that give the Youth Court the power to detain drug-dependent children for treatment will be enforced later this year, but under a different model to what the Marshall Government promised ahead of the last state election.
A “significant” funding boost to mental health services is needed to alleviate the “crisis” in SA’s mental health system, according to the Australian Medical Association, which is pleading with the State Government to address issues in EDs, country hospitals and palliative care.
UPDATED: Plane-loads of returning Australians arriving in Adelaide this week will be forced to quarantine at a temporary medi-hotel facility if they test positive for COVID-19, despite past state government assurances of a stand-alone site in the wake of the Parafield cluster.
