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Tara Cosoleto and Karen Sweeney

Guard slams prison healthcare standards

A guard says it was common to see women as unwell as Veronica not getting appropriate treatment. (AAP)

Inmates at Melbourne's women's prison are receiving sub-par healthcare with some nurses not even qualified to give out Panadol, a prison guard of 23 years says.

Leanne Reid is a supervisor in the medical unit at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre where Indigenous woman Veronica Nelson died in a cell in January 2020.

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