Calls for exclusion zones after protesters block entrances to Melbourne hospitals

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The mother of a cancer patient being treated at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital said she was blocked by anti-vax protesters from entering the hospital over the weekend. 9News

Karly Kirk, who had to be guided into the hospital, is now backing calls for protest exclusion zones to be implemented around major hospitals.

"I was nervous and I was scared as I was coming through. It was like a pure rage that then escalated into tears," Kirk said. Emergency physician Dr Stephen Parnis said exclusion zones needed to be created to ban hospital protests.

 

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These people are just appalling. I would call them 'absolute bottom feeders'. But, that would be a compliment.

I can see a whole lot of people there that should be taken off welfare if they become a public nuisance.

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