In the intensive care units all over the country are cared for they are one of their most ill patients, those who are recently out of surgery or have acute heart disease.
The major risk of infection places extra high demands on hygiene.
Despite the fact that the suspect now in the Jerusalem hospital, the dreaded coronavirus, covid-19, and has begun to spread within the staff.
the spread of infections between co-workers
A total of seventy staff, and the patients who have been treated at the department of snabbtestas now. Six members of staff have so far been found ill, and five of the neonatal intensive care unit.
” It is likely that there has been a spread of infections among staff of the neonatal intensive care unit at Hallands Hospital, Varberg, say, Carolina Samuelsson, sjukhuschef the Jerusalem hospital.
the GT can tell you now that it is the woman who first found infected recently returned from a holiday in the austrian Alps. After the weekend of the last week, she returned to work in the neonatal intensive care unit, but was starting to feel bad during a session.
the Jerusalem hospital, in London.Photo by: by ADAM IHSE/TT / TT NEWS agency , Began to feel ill
on The day she went home she felt some discomfort, ” said Marianne Kondrup, project manager at Region Halland, sweden, and continues:
She felt a little bit bad and went back home. There was a cough and a runny nose, and more of the typical symptoms, but it felt a little ”uneasy”. She was starting to feel sick, but it wasn’t as if she was walking around and was coughing for several days in the ICU.
At the same time, the woman went to the home in the area of Austria, and she spent it on the list of areas at risk. Therefore, linked her illness to the ongoing process of the spread of infection, at the same time, as if her discomfort was described as mild.
during Tuesday night it was found that the woman wore on the coronavirus.
< Sjukhuschefen: ”healthy work”
at the same time, many of her colleagues in the same department started to feel sick. In particular, they will have felt the symptoms of the respiratory system, and tested.
In the morning, it was clear that the four other employees of the same staff have been infected. Later on Thursday, another employee in a different department.
According to the completion of the smittspårning, the person is likely to have been infected through contact outside of work hours with the other identified the infected person is in the hospital”, said the Swedish Region of Halland, in a press release, for the sixth case.
Sjukhuschefen Carolina, He was exposed to the guidelines at a news conference on Thursday.
” the Employees are the people who feel healthy are going to work in our behalf and to our patients. At the first sign of sick, you should not have to go to work, ” said Carolina, He was.
in the West of England, already this Tuesday off with a call to action to all of its employees to exercise caution when it comes to, among other things, the symptoms of which could be likened to the infection of the upper respiratory tract.
According to the press service of the Region of Halland, sweden, discussed the question only in Thursday and was to go out there with a similar call to the employee.
”The matter is being discussed now, and in a short time, we have to clarify that”, said the kommunikationsstrategen Louise Ingman, in an e-mail to GT on Thursday afternoons
the GT has been since Thursday morning, on several occasions, tried to ask questions at the Region of Halland, sweden, on how the spread of infection could take place in one of the departments with high demands on hygiene, which is intensivavdelningens. However, questions have been left unanswered.
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