❓ Mr. L'Estrange asks the Premier about the government's plan to maintain frontline emergency services if personnel are quarantined due to coronavirus. The Premier refers to the newly released Pandemic Plan and suggests redeploying non-frontline staff.
AnsweredQoN 133Legislative Assembly
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CORONAVIRUS —
FRONTLINE EMERGENCY SERVICES
133. Mr S.K. L'ESTRANGE to the Premier:
If
coronavirus results in emergency services frontline personnel being
quarantined, including professional firefighters and ambulance paramedics, what is the state government's plan to
mitigate this impact and ensure that these essential services are
maintained?
FRONTLINE EMERGENCY SERVICES
133. Mr S.K. L'ESTRANGE to the Premier:
If
coronavirus results in emergency services frontline personnel being
quarantined, including professional firefighters and ambulance paramedics, what is the state government's plan to
mitigate this impact and ensure that these essential services are
maintained?
AnswerView source ↗
I
thank the member for the question. This morning we released the ''Western
Australian Government Pandemic Plan '', which details responses in
a range of areas. Clearly, as I outlined to the house yesterday, as events
develop and if people are required to self-isolate, agencies will look to bring
people from non-frontline roles into frontline roles to deal with whatever
issues are out there. But I do think that we need to plan. We need to be aware
that those are the sorts of responses that we need to put in place, but I am
confident that all Western Australians understand that this is a serious
situation and that we all need to work together to deal with what confronts us.
thank the member for the question. This morning we released the ''Western
Australian Government Pandemic Plan '', which details responses in
a range of areas. Clearly, as I outlined to the house yesterday, as events
develop and if people are required to self-isolate, agencies will look to bring
people from non-frontline roles into frontline roles to deal with whatever
issues are out there. But I do think that we need to plan. We need to be aware
that those are the sorts of responses that we need to put in place, but I am
confident that all Western Australians understand that this is a serious
situation and that we all need to work together to deal with what confronts us.
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