Health by Janelle Miles
Premium Content Doctors are warning Queenslanders to expect delays in non-urgent elective surgery amid a worldwide shortage of sterilisation wrap, used to keep medical instruments free of infection. Australian Medical Association Queensland president Chris Perry yesterday called on the Palaszczuk Government to invest in developing a local manufacturing solution to the problem. The sterilisation wrap, brand name Kimguard, is produced in the United States, using materials also found in high filtration face masks. Professor Perry, an ear, nose and throat surgeon, said a side effect of the increased need for personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic had been a shortage of the sterilisation wrap.
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