Nurses and midwives in Australia say they've had to take extraordinary measures to stop members of the public from stealing supplies such as sanitizer and face masks.
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 personal protective 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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