‘If I had my time again, I’d insist people with COVID-19 go to hospital’
Anglicare Chief Executive admits the care needed by infected residents at a Sydney nursing home was too complex
The operator of a coronavirus-hit Sydney nursing home, where 16 residents have died, admits it would have been easier if those infected at the facility had been transferred to hospital, rather than treated on-site.
But NSW Health is standing by the response to the outbreak, given numerous elderly and frail people were involved, with serious comorbidities.
Some 37 residents and 32 staff at Newmarch House, near Penrith, have contracted COVID-19, after a staff member worked for six days with mild respiratory symptoms.
Anglicare Chief Executive Grant Millard said the organisation complied with NSW Health’s containment strategy after the outbreak and anyone who wanted to be hospitalised after contracting COVID-19 was accommodated.
