Queensland border restrictions prevent NSW baby accessing crucial brain scan
More inhumane atrocious behaviour from the Australian government...
NSW baby blocked from crucial brain scan as Queensland tightens border restrictions
A baby with a brain cyst on the NSW north coast has missed a crucial MRI scan due to Queensland's tougher border restrictions. Her mother says they are "in limbo".
www.abc.net.au
“A mother in northern New South Wales has been denied entry to Queensland for vital tests on a cyst in her four-month-old baby's brain, as border restrictions tighten.
Amy Gerang-Hall, who lives at Bangalow in the NSW north coast border region, had received a medical exemption to cross the border with her daughter, Davina, for a specialist MRI scan.
However, Queensland Health has since told Ms Gerang-Hall it is treating all NSW patients as if they were from a hotspot.
Ms Gerang-Hall said she was told patients from hotspots were allowed only in the hospital Emergency Department.
"Because of her age, she has to go to the Queensland hospital so she has the right specialists involved, and we don't have the neurologists at our Lismore Base Hospital," Ms Gerang-Hall said.
"If we were to go there, we could only go into the Emergency Department and her neurologist would have to come and see her there, and everyone would be in PPE [Personal Protective Equipment].
"But she needs to have an MRI, which means she would have to go to the MRI department, and because that was in the hospital, we weren't allowed."
I have no words for the obscene attitude of these “authorities” who are apparently “so deeply concerned” for humanity. I can only begin to imagine what this poor family is going through. And it doesn’t look as though they will change the restrictions any time soon.
Absolutely disgusting.