COVID in Ballarat: Plea to ease into freedom with rising pressure on emergency department

Melanie Whelan
October 23 2021 - 5:00am
URGENT: Ballarat's COVID ward nurse unit manager Marcus Hovey with BHS acute operations executive manager Ben Kelly, emergency department nurse unit manager Grant Berriman and community programs operations director Michelle Veal. Picture: Luke Hemer
URGENT: Ballarat's COVID ward nurse unit manager Marcus Hovey with BHS acute operations executive manager Ben Kelly, emergency department nurse unit manager Grant Berriman and community programs operations director Michelle Veal. Picture: Luke Hemer

EMERGENCY nurses in Ballarat urge us to cautiously embrace new freedoms because unless our jab rate continues to lift, they fear the city's emergency department and COVID wards will be seeing more of us.

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Melanie Whelan

Melanie Whelan

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