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Thames Hospital Staff Now Have Symptoms
Thames Hospital Staff Now Have Symptoms
Some Thames Hospital staff in contact with patients suffering the affects of diarrhoea and vomiting have themselves now been affected.
There were no new cases admitted to Thames Hospital over the weekend but a number of hospital staff came down with the symptoms.
Hospital-based patients with the symptoms were in isolation, as were the affected staff and the bug had not spread through the hospital thanks to infection control measures quickly put in place on Friday.
The message to the Thames Coromandel community continues to be to stay at home if unwell. Hospital officials say GPs and rest homes should manage patients within the community unless they are so ill they urgently need hospitalisation.
The recommendation is to wash your hands regularly and a hand hygiene campaign used at Waikato Hospital was set for use at Thames.
Thames Hospital is near full and only admitting urgent cases.
Preventing dehydration is the main treatment in the initial stages of diarrhoea.
Making a 1 (one) litre solution using salt, sugar and water.
Ingredients:
* one level teaspoon of
salt
* eight level teaspoons of sugar
* one litre of
clean drinking or boiled water and then cooled
5 cupfuls
(each cup about 200 ml.)
Preparation Method:
Stir the mixture till the salt and sugar dissolve.
Avoid tea, coffee or alcohol. Dehydration can cause
serious problems, especially in babies, children, older
adults and those with special health problems.
We also
recommend people follow these basic principles:
* social
distancing
* hand hygiene
* cough and sneeze
etiquette; and
* enhanced cleaning (using a bleach-based
cleaning agent to kill viruses)
* putting away/enhanced
cleaning of shared equipment, toys etc.
About Waikato District Health Board and Health Waikato:
Waikato DHB is responsible for planning, funding and providing quality health and disability support services for the 360,270 people living in the Waikato DHB region. It has an annual turnover of $970 million and employs more than 5500 people.
Health Waikato is the DHB's main provider of hospital and health services with an annual budget of more than $560 million and 4500 staff. It has seven divisions across five hospital sites, two maternity and continuing care hospitals and 21 community bases offering a comprehensive range of primary, secondary and tertiary health services.
A wide range of independent providers delivers other Waikato DHB-funded health services - including primary health, pharmacies and community laboratories.
ENDS
Waikato District Health Board
Healthy People. Excellent Care
Waikato District Health Board (DHB) employs over 6500 people and plans, funds and provides hospital and health services to more than 391,770 people in a region covering eight per cent of New Zealand.
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