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Eight confirmed the new crown, Melbourne's famous hospital health situation is still worrying

2019-nCoV Special
Source: xkb.com.au
[Social News]     12 Jul 2020
photo taken in the alfred hospital ward showed medical carts and bins filled with rubbish (pictured in the sydney morning herald) melbourne alfred hospital (AlfredHospital) had begun to take action to restrict access to the new crown ward. Eight of the hospital's medical staff Coronavirus tested positive, and hundreds of staff were quarantined for 14 days, the second time since the outbreak of the...
Eight confirmed the new crown, Melbourne's famous hospital health situation is still worrying

photo taken in the alfred hospital ward showed medical carts and garbage bins piled with rubbish (sydney morning herald)

melbourne alfred hospital (Alfred Hospital) has begun to take action to restrict access to the new crown ward. Eight of the hospital's medical staff Coronavirus tested positive, and hundreds of staff were quarantined for 14 days, the second time since the outbreak of the hospital group infection.

Hospital managers set up reception staff at the entrance to the infectious disease ward where the new crown patient is treated to ensure that all staff entering the high-risk area are recorded.

A staff member at the hospital, who declined to be named, told the Times and the Sydney Morning Herald that control of virus infection in hospital wards was a matter of great concern.

photo taken this week in the restricted area of the hospital showed that the trash cans in the ward were already filled with contaminated medical waste, including discarded medical clothing and other personal protective equipment. "I had to touch the lid of the trash can with my hand to get my personal protective equipment off, which was disgusting and dangerous ," the staff member said. "

Eight confirmed the new crown, Melbourne's famous hospital health situation is still worrying

Garbage bins piled with medical waste (Sydney Morning Herald)

Access tracking is still ongoing to determine how many other staff members have been infected. alfred hospital declined to disclose the duties of the eight tested positive staff.

The Times and Sydney Morning Herald, however, learned that venereal disease eight positive cases included a ward clerk, a pharmacy student, a pharmacy assistant, a nurse and an intern in the respiratory department who might have had contact with lung transplant and intensive care patients.

The state government said Saturday that another 90-year-old man has been diagnosed with the death of a new crown in Coronavirus, state, which is now the largest in Australia.

One female speaker at alfred hospital said the hospital believed that five of the eight infected people had no contact with each other, they were infected in the community virus, and three of their co-workers, who were also infected with virus, had been considered close contacts before being diagnosed and had been segregated.

The hospital began this week requiring all visitors and staff in the clinical area to wear surgical masks, increasing the frequency of cleaning in infectious disease wards and installing some pedal bins, but because of the huge use of personal protective equipment, small bins were quickly filled, and the hospital is currently studying further improvements.

Three cancer patients were Coronavirus after alfred's hospital infection in march death, when a patient with other diseases carried Coronavirus, and transmitted them. Two other patients and 10 staff in the blood and oncology ward were also infected.

Staff in the infectious-disease ward raised concerns about medical masks that were not well protected and were fixed to their ears by elastic ropes. These staff are worried that they can not wear P2 or N95 masks because these masks are usually prepared for clinicians.

Alfred Hospital also provided protective clothing, panels, masks and gloves to health care workers in newly diagnosed cases and had to be worn under the supervision of others.

while medical masks have a weak protective effect on virus particles compared to respirator-type masks (e.g. N95), hospitals have provided medical masks to medical staff treating new crown patients, in line with the official recommendations of the australian chief health protection committee (Australian Health Protection Principal Committee) based on the recommendations of its infection control panel.

Julian Wright (Julian Rait), Chairman of the Virginia Medical Association of Australia, said that "the highest level of personal protective equipment ", including P2 or N95 masks, should be provided to all health care workers who treat patients with confirmed or suspected new crowns.

a new batch of personal protective equipment has been received by the state health department recently. the warehouse has 34 million surgical masks ,1.3 million N95 masks ,2 million masks ,1.7 million protective clothing and more than 85 million gloves. the health department is working with alfred hospital to improve the current situation.

"As there is an increased risk of new crown infections in certain areas of Melbourne, we strongly encourage all public-facing staff of the Melbourne Metropolitan Area Health Service to use appropriate personal protective equipment to maximize the protection of themselves and others ," speaker said. We provide protective equipment to all hospitals and have adequate personal protective equipment, which we will distribute to the medical staff at the front line. "

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