A nurses' union in Australia is asking that the public respect health care workers, after it says there have been instances 'where community members have been stealing bottles of hand sanitiser, face masks and other vital resources from hospital wards.'
Most hospitals in the state"have had to start cable-tying or using chains so the bottles [of hand sanitizer] aren't going missing from wards," a spokeswoman for the union was quoted by theThe newspaper reports that
these incidents include the theft of an entire cart of PPE equipment at Westmead Hospital in a suburb of Sydney and another in which a pallet of hand sanitizer was intercepted as it was being delivered to a hospital.
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