29 April 2021 2:06pm
A Supreme hearing into a major class action against St Basil’s Homes for the Aged in Fawkner has heard that family and friends visiting the nursing home from May to July last year were not told to limit visits, despite the rising spread of COVID-19.
Staff are alleged to have been given outdated infection control training, face masks were not enforced and hand sanitiser was not readily available in the lead-up to the deadly outbreak which resulted in utter chaos as elderly residents were left soiled and unfed, according to their relatives. Ultimately, more than a quarter of St Basil’s 120 residents died as a result of the outbreak which swept through the facility.