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The Waitakere Hospital nurses reportedly asked not to work in coronavirus-free rooms after working in a Covid room, but their concerns were ignored.
The claims arose in a Newshub Anonymous Nurse Appointment Report at West Auckland Hospital.
Three staff members at the hospital tested positive after working in a room where patients with the virus were transferred from St Margaret Hospital and the Rest House due to a shortage of staff at that center.
The report featured two hospital nurses who said they felt intimidated and ignored by the DHB administration, while patients and staff were at risk.
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“We all feel that we have been disappointed, mistreated,” said a nurse at Waitakere Hospital. Newshub.
“At first, we felt like soldiers and we were actually ready to go to work and take things head on. But after a series of events, we feel like our mojo has been crushed.”
Ricky Wilson / Things Coronavirus triage tents were set up outside the Waitakere Hospital in Auckland.
The staff had asked that the nurses in the Covid ward work there and only there, but the nurse claims that management ignored that request.
In addition to the three nurses who tested positive, another 35 staff members who had contact with the trio were sent home and told to isolate.
Patients in the rehab room were now considered at risk, allegedly citing the families’ ire.
“As a result of that, the nurses had to unhook the phone because they were receiving abuse from family members,” said a nurse Newshub.
The report states that the Waitematā District Health Board (DHB) apologized to the relatives of those patients in the Covid free room.
In a written statement, Dr. Vanessa Thornton, leader of the Northern Region Clinical Technical Advisory Group, said she supported staff who could move from Covid-19 to non-Covid-19 areas as long as the usual procedures for Infection control when working with patients with infectious diseases were followed
That included “meticulous” use of appropriate personal protective equipment, hand hygiene, physical distancing and self-monitoring for possible symptoms, according to the statement.
Despite repeated requests, DHB has yet to confirm Things if he had apologized to the relatives of those patients in the Covid free room.
