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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities should add more clinics to speed up the country’s struggling COVID-19 vaccine rollout, its main medical association said on Thursday, dismissing a government plan to create mass inoculation hubs as unworkable in the near term.
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A healthcare professional prepares a dose of the Pfizer coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine as high-risk workers receive the first vaccines in the state of Victoria s rollout of the program, in Melbourne, Australia, February 22, 2021. REUTERS/Sandra Sanders
Australian Medical Association (AMA) President Omar Khorshid said establishing mass centres would pose “huge logistical challenges”, including the difficulty of finding enough medical staff to manage the facilities.
SYDNEY (REUTERS) - Australian authorities should add more clinics to speed up the country s struggling Covid-19 vaccine rollout, its main medical association said on Thursday (April 15), dismissing a government plan to create mass inoculation hubs as unworkable in the near term.
Australian Medical Association (AMA) President Omar Khorshid said establishing mass centres would pose huge logistical challenges , including the difficulty of finding enough medical staff to manage the facilities. You need to find a workforce from somewhere, and we are not aware of large numbers of registered nurses and doctors who are available to manage these centres, Dr Khorshid told ABC Radio.
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