The Country Fire Authority has refused to fund specialised clinical care for a former volunteer who launched Supreme Court action against the organisation last year over alleged violence and bullying she suffered as a teenager at a station near Bendigo.
appeared to show a senior CFA member grabbing De Rosa by her hair and forcing her to the ground, as four other male firefighters watched.
Bergles provided several reasons why the funding request had been rejected, including De Rosa’s refusal to transfer medical records to the CFA or undertake an assessment by an independent medical expert.Elizabeth De Rosa said she had already provided the CFA with extensive medical records for her daughter.
The CFA has also refused to pay several of De Rosa’s medical costs from treatment by Bendigo Health, and instructed her to make claims as a public patient under Medicare, according to her mother. She referred to CFA correspondence from August 2021, when CFA general manager of people and culture John Hussey appeared to give an undertaking to cover the cost of De Rosa’s treatment.
Elizabeth also received assurance from then-police minister Lisa Neville, who in an April 2020 letter said: “The CFA will continue to case manage the claim and communicate with you regarding your family’s ongoing needs and circumstances.”
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