The deadly flu season which has caused heartbreak in Border areas such as Wangraatta and Cobram may not be over yet.
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Health sector representatives and Health Minister Jill Hennessy met for a roundtable on Monday to ensure all measures were in place to meet the rising number of flu cases and discuss what could be done to be better prepared for future flu seasons.
Ms Hennessy told Parliament on Tuesday she hoped it would end soon and had given permission for hospitals to cancel some elective surgeries to deal with an increase in sick patients.
“Every day I ask the chief health officer beggingly as to whether or not we think this influenza season might have peaked or not and the best advice we have at this point in time is that we simply don’t know,” she said.
“It’s not too late to get vaccinated for the flu - this is a particularly virulent strain.
“The current flu vaccine is effective in part in protecting people from that flu, but it is a particular strain that we have seen come through the entire eastern seaboard which has had such devastating consequences for people.”
