Top doctor pans hotel quarantine after WA’s snap lockdown
AMA WA president Dr Andrew Miller says federal experts are being 'grossly negligent' and urgent change is needed
The head of AMA WA has slammed state and federal governments for persisting with the faulty hotel quarantine system to manage the coronavirus pandemic.
State president Dr Andrew Miller said innocent people who were arriving without coronavirus were being infected in quarantine. He described the system as an abuse of human rights.
He made his comments in the wake of WA’s snap three-day lockdown after SARS-Cov-2 was transmitted to others in hotel quarantine by an infected returned traveller who went to India for a wedding.
“The issue is that hotel quarantine isn’t fit for purpose,” he told ABC radio on Monday.
