COVID-19

August 2020 Update: “As the crisis in the COVID19 transmission in the Aged care sector worsens, both Private and Public hospitals have been instructed by the Victorian Premier to suspend all elective surgery other than Category 1 and the most urgent Category 2 patients. The Premier has, however announced that they will do their “level best” to honour those previously scheduled surgeries.” This rapidly changing space puts this promise in jeopardy. Many Private hospital theatre lists will be halved or cancelled requiring much shifting and rescheduling of patients and we thank those affected patients in advance for their patience and understanding in this matter. Migynae is fortunate to hold a number of theatre lists across a number of sites so is well placed to carry out promised surgeries. Going forward, we, as all surgeons across Metropolitan Melbourne are now required to triage patients requiring surgery to only the most urgent. The urgency is primarily driven by the level of pain a patient is suffering and/or the duration.

As all our dedicated doctors work across the Public and Private sector, their risks of coming in contact with the virus is high. This multiple site access does increase the potential for asymptomatic transmission for our doctors so hence our policy to reduce prolonged face to face contact with our patients during the consultation process. This is achieved through modified appointment types, utilizing the telephone, zoom and short physical contact times. All patients with scheduled appointments at the rooms during stage 4, will be required to telephone on arrival. No one is to enter the clinic until instructed to do so.

We would like to thank all our doctors and staff for their patience, tolerance and hard work. Our staff are working in separate teams to avoid cross contamination and to ensure the practice can still provide care should any member of the team test positive. We are proud of our ability to continue practicing our high level of care while displaying outstanding adaptation to the changed circumstances.  Thanks also goes to our lovely patients, who trusted us and tolerated the extraordinary changes to our normal operating systems.