Nurses' union calls on Aged Care Minister to resign
The Victorian head of the nurses' union wants Federal Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck to resign over the slow rollout of vaccines to aged care staff.
Senator Colbeck told Senate Estimates today just over 31,000 aged care workers nationally were fully vaccinated, but the government was not sure exactly how many have had the jab.
That could be less than 10 per cent of the workforce.
Senator Colbeck told RN Breakfast today he was "comfortable" with the pace of the rollout.
But Lisa Fitzpatrick, the Victorian secretary of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, said the minister "should hang up the boots" and give the job to someone "motivated and enthusiastic".
"I am calling for him to resign," she told ABC Radio Melbourne.
"I think that's a terrible indictment to be comfortable with less than 10 per cent of the workforce vaccinated when you promised that from February 22, the vaccinations would roll out, and they have never been targeted for private aged care workers.
"Our workforce have only got the dregs if there's any left over."
Ms Fitzpatrick said she had "given up on the Commonwealth" to vaccinate the aged care and disability workforce and was instead calling on the union's members to take the Victorian government up on its offer to give them the jab.
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