Thursday, 7 April 2022

COVID-19 vaccination

Dr CUMMING (Western Metropolitan) (18:22): (1882) My adjournment matter is to the Minister for Health in the other place. The action I seek is for the minister to ensure that hospitals provide consistent guidelines for entry requirements that also show common sense rather than strictly following a set of protocols. Yesterday I received an email from Paul. He wrote:

I just want to post my story of how my wife was refused entry to the Austin Hospital to pick up my mother of 86 years of age because she was unvaxxed with a medical exemption for 4 months from Covid Vaccines as she recently recovered from Covid.

My mother … was admitted to the Austin Hospital for a bowel issue. Upon her release, I was called up by the hospital to pick her up. My wife Maria … went to pick her up.

… Maria had a conversation with the security Guard and informed the Hospital representatives that she had a medical exemption as she had covid.

The Hospital representative refused her entry because she was unvaccinated!

Maria is a type two diabetic and she asked the representatives if she can purchase food from the cafeteria. Again she was refused access on the unvaccinated basis.

Paul said that the care his mother received was excellent but he was upset at the treatment of his wife.

Looking at the Pandemic (Visitors to Hospitals and Care Facilities) Order 2022, there is no exemption for those who have had COVID—natural immunity. Surely common sense should prevail—not with this government, not with this health minister, not with this chief health officer and not by following the science of our natural immunity. A person who has recovered from COVID—it does not matter if they are vaccinated or not—has immunity, natural immunity, running through their veins. And they apparently become a risk—how? In Parliament in the last couple of weeks we have had members who have had COVID and been able to come to work. Minister, when are you going to drop all these mandates and restrictions, start making some sense when it comes to having COVID and natural immunity and allow people to actually live?