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Victoria to issue emergency Code Brown alert for its health services due to Omicron wave

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  • Victoria to issue emergency Code Brown alert for its health services due to Omicron wave

    Posted 3h ago3 hours ago, updated 23m ago

    The Victorian government will issue a statewide Code Brown for its health service, which may postpone leave for thousands of staff and defer non-essential services.

    A Code Brown is an emergency setting usually reserved for external emergencies such as natural disasters and mass casualty events.

    It formalises and streamlines the health system's emergency management in response to the growing number of people in hospitals.

    The Code Brown will come into force at midday on Wednesday for all metropolitan hospitals and six regional hospitals, with each site to put in place different strategies to respond to the activation.

    Code Brown will be activated at midday tomorrow for all metropolitan hospitals and six regional hospitals, allowing them to redeploy staff and ask some workers to postpone leave in order to respond to a surge in patients.


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