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reDue to the outbreak and the “consequent lack of specialized doctors” to complete the scales, the Gynecology and Obstetrics Emergency Service of the Beja Hospital will remain “temporarily” closed until 8:00 am on July 7 October, says the Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo (ULSBA), in information published today.
While the service is closed, there is no gynecology and obstetrics assistance to users from abroad, who will be referred to the nearest public hospitals, but hospitalization in the specialty continues to work for those admitted to the Beja hospital, he explained Lusa Agency the president of ULSBA, Conceição Margalha.
Speaking to Lusa on Monday, the official explained that, due to the outbreak, the hospital was “temporarily” with “a lack of specialized doctors to fill the scales” of the Emergency Gynecology and Obstetrics Service and had to closeSunday at 8pm.
Conception Margalha He said that the service would be closed “safe” until 08:00 today, because it was already known that there were no doctors to make the stops until then, but today the ULSBA announced that the situation will continue until 08:00 on 07 October.
The outbreak, which was identified in the Beja hospital last Thursday, when detected the first six nurses in the operating room infected, has already caused 31 cases of infection confirmed among health professionals, according to the most recent data published by the ULSBA around 9:30 pm on Monday.
Between 31 infected confirmed, there are 14 nurses, nine doctors, five operating assistants, two technical assistants and a diagnostic and therapeutic technician and all have “only mild symptoms” and are isolated at home, he says ULSBA, which manages the Beja hospital.
Due to the outbreak, the ULSBA strengthened safety and hygiene measures, expanded screening to professionals and decided to carry out screening tests to COVID-19-19 to all the Beja hospital staff, which will end at the end of this week.
According to ULSBA, at the hospital, exception the operating room, where there is only exercise Emergency Surgery, and the Gynecology and Obstetrics Emergency Service, which is closed, specialties consultations and others acts Medical and nursing exams are “normal.”
A ULSBA says that users should go to the Beja hospital “with complete confidence, but respecting and following the instructions given”.
These are indications regarding physical distance, sanitation of the hands, at the time of the consultation or examination and, “very important”, the obligatory use of a mask inside the buildings of the hospital of Beja.
The outbreak situation “is being monitored“by the Public Health Unit, by the Occupational Health Service and by the Local Coordinating Group of the Prevention and Control Program Infections and resistance to Antimicrobial and under the contingency plan in the âscope gives pandemic of COVID-19-19 days ULSBA.
Once the first cases were identified, the teams of these services “immediately started” the risk assessment procedures for the employees and the request for evidence and the isolation of the suspected cases.
A pandemic of COVID-19-19 has already caused more than a million deaths and more than 33.1 million cases of infection worldwide, according to the latest assessment by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 1,957 people died from 74,029 cases of infection confirmed, according to the most recent Direction-General health.
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