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– We have an employee with us who has tested positive for corona and, in that sense, has been placed in isolation. We have started to track infections both among employees and among patients the person in question has been in contact with, says the head of the lung department, Øystein Almås.
Just over 20 employees are in quarantine.
There are several patients who have been in close contact with the infected person. These have also been informed that they must be quarantined.
They shouldn’t be tested unless they develop symptoms, Almås says.
– We have identified 14 patients with whom the person in question has had close contact during the period that we estimate that there may be a suspicion that the nurse may have been contagious.
May have been infected by a patient
The route of infection has not yet been clarified, but Almås says there is a suspicion that the employee may have been infected by a patient.
– We have not clarified the safe route of infection in relation to the infected person. But we have a suspicion, or there may be a small probability that it was a patient who infected the employee.
This means that some employees of the neurology department and the cardiology department are also in quarantine, because they have had contact with this patient.
In these departments, it does not affect operations to any degree, says Almås.
The operation of the lung department will also be the same as usual throughout the weekend.
– We managed to keep the same number of beds throughout the weekend, and it’s thanks to the employees who rolled up their sleeves and worked hard to make this work.
