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An ICU nurse who remains in controlled isolation says she was concerned about contracting Covid-19 because of how the facility worked.
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The intensive care nurse has criticized the way the Commodore facilities are run. Source: 1 NEWS
Debbie Stick, who has been at Christchurch’s Commodore Airport hotel for the past 13 days after arriving from the UK, is now requesting mandatory Covid-19 testing before people can board flights to New Zealand.
He said he asked for a Covid-19 test, which came back negative, before traveling to New Zealand.
“I felt that the nation here in New Zealand had done a very good job. I wasn’t going to be the one to bring anything. “
Stick also asks for segregated exercise areas until people have tested negative. She told 1 NEWS that she exercised with the newcomers despite having tested negative on the third day.
“I thought, no, this is not as safe as you want in a managed isolation unit.”
But, a spokesman for the Ministry of Business and Innovation said that when returnees at different stages of their stay are in the same area, there are very strict procedures.
The spokesperson said there was no risk if people wore masks and kept two meters away.
It comes as an exit plan is being drawn up for the release of Ukrainian and Russian fishermen from the Sudima Hotel in Christchurch. Thirty-one fishermen in the group tested positive for Covid-19.
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All the fishermen tested negative for Covid-19 before boarding their flight, says the Director General of Health. Source: Breakfast
Two members of the healthcare staff at the managed isolation facility tested positive earlier this week. Genome sequencing of one of the cases showed that they had the same virus strain as five members of the fishing crew.
Public health expert Nick Wilson is also calling for a review, telling RNZ earlier this week that the situation in Sudima should be viewed as a system failure.
But University of Auckland microbiologist Dr Siouxie Wiles said the rapid detection of the second staff member’s case showed that New Zealand’s processes at the border “are working really well.”
“It’s just another example of how our processes are working really well, that people who work in isolation and managed quarantine and around borders are tested regularly,” he said.
National Party leader Judith Collins said she was “very concerned.”
“[The Government] They need to take responsibility and I have said that it is time for us to do a review. “
Collins said he felt sorry for the nurses and health personnel at the facilities “where they feel their health and safety are not being adequately protected.”
