Senior Victorian health officials were warned about the horrifying conditions at a Melbourne nursing home just days after the Commonwealth seized control of the facility, an inquest into Australia's deadliest aged care COVID-19 outbreak has heard.
The harrowing details have been aired before Victoria's coroner, who is investigating the deaths of 50 residents, 45 of whom died with COVID-19, at St Basil's Homes for the Aged at Fawkner, in Melbourne's north, in July and August last year.
The first day of the inquest heard that at one point a deceased patient was wheeled out in front of other residents, that infected residents were mingling with the healthy, bins were overflowing and medication was left on the floor.