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On Tuesday, an employee of the women’s and children’s clinic tested positive for coronavirus. This is the third employee who has tested positive in the last week.
Three Stavanger University Hospital employees tested positive for the coronavirus. Photo: Jan Inge Haga
As a result of the infection in the women’s and children’s clinic, seven employees are in quarantine. The person in question has not had contact with the patient and the clinic is functioning normally. Health Stavanger states that the source of the infection is known and that the infection did not occur in the hospital.
Three infected employees
On Saturday, September 26, an employee of the children’s and adolescents clinic tested positive for coronavirus. Two employees and four patients and family members were quarantined.
On September 28, an employee of the intensive care unit tested positive and 10 department employees, who were classified as close contacts, were quarantined and examined.
The three cases of infection are not related to each other, says Helse Stavanger.
150 tested – not positive
To date, 150 employees have been tested for infection in the intensive care unit. None of the samples have tested positive so far.
Helse Stavanger update on Wednesday September 30 at 09:00:
- So far, no staff or patients associated with the employee who tested positive on Monday tested positive for COVID-19. More than 150 tests have been carried out. Testing continues beyond Wednesday.
- The operating program partially runs normally. During Wednesday afternoon, the hospital will consider whether it can fully escalate again as usual starting tomorrow Thursday.
