Q&A: Apr 6

On Monday night, Q&A brings together doctors and nurses from emergency wards, ICUs and fever clinics, GPs struggling with a lack of protective equipment, and mental health professionals facing the surge in corona-related anxiety.

The show is Live from Sydney with host Hamish McLachlan.

As coronavirus spreads across Australia, frontline health workers are frantically preparing for the inevitable explosion of seriously ill patients. With the pandemic expected to peak here in the next few weeks, doctors and nurses are increasingly under pressure, desperate to avoid the horrifying scenes from Italy, Spain and now the United States.

Will the extra PPE gear promised by government arrive here in time? How will our remote and regional hospitals cope? Who will staff the ICU units when we already have a shortage of nurses? And how are frontline workers dealing with these traumatic circumstances?

Guest panel:

Dr Stephen Parnis, Emergency Doctor and Former AMA Vice President
Danielle Austin, Senior Nurse and Disaster Manager at St Vincent’s Hospital
Dr Vyom Sharma, General Practitioner
Dr Lucy Morgan, Respiratory Physician, Nepean Hospital

Monday, April 6 at 9.35pm AEST on ABC.