‘I was kept from my practice for two months’: GP’s border nightmare
Townsville GP Dr Alec Stereff found himself in limbo after travelling to Melbourne for his father's funeral
A GP who spent 60 days trying to get home to Queensland after his father’s funeral is calling for a rethink of the state’s COVID-19 border rules.
Dr Alec Stereff was locked out of his state after flying to Melbourne on 6 September, the day his elderly father died from heart and kidney failure.
“There was no way I wasn’t going to attend his funeral,” says the GP, from Townsville in the state’s north.
“He was 92 and had been in a nursing home since January, so his death wasn’t entirely unexpected, but of course it was still very sad.”
