Staff shortages and COVID outbreaks impacting aged care sector

ABC NEWS (Australia) 2022-02-07

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About half of the nation's aged care facilities are battling COVID outbreaks and staff shortages. Providers have called on the government to send in ADF troops into nursing homes to fill the gap. Geriatric medicine specialist Joseph Ibrahim says the situation has been at crisis level for some time.
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