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SAccording to the note signed by the president of the board of directors, Elsa Baião, the first case was detected on Friday, following the positive result of a hospitalized patient, who had previously tested negative.
The Centro Hospitalar do Oeste, which integrates the Caldas da Rainha hospitals, Peniche and Torres Vedras, tested all employees and patients of the services involved.
Elsa Baião told Lusa that the outbreak started in the Medical Service of the Caldas da Rainha Hospital, but as some patients were transferred to the other units of the hospital (the infection for the new coronavirus) OR SARS–CoV-2 was also detectedat least in one of the other units.
“To date, 24 patients and 80 professionals have been tested, confirming that they are infected four employees, all asymptomatic, and six patients, waiting for various results, which will be known soon, “adds the statement sent to the Lusa agency.
The chairman of the board of directors also revealed that more people could be tested. “It is necessary to allow the window period to pass in order not to run the risk of false negatives. infected there is no situation of clinical gravity ”, he explained.
Six professionals related to this outbreak are isolated prophylactic and hospitalized patients remain isolated.
The board of directors guaranteed that “all the rules imposed by the health authority were met and disinfection services so that the hospital remains a safe place to provide care. ”
“All the services of the Hospital Center are insured and continue to function normally. For this reason, all users are urged to continue visiting the hospital, whenever their clinical situation so requires, either for acts scheduled or in an emergency, “the note underlines.
The Centro Hospitalar do Oeste “continues to make an effort to hire more professionals, which will increase the response capacity of the health services and guarantee the provision of adequate care to the needs of the population.”
From the beginning of pandemic, in March In the past, 133 professionals have already been hired to attend the Activities imposed by the diagnosis and treatment of pandemic, adds the statement. “The board of the Centro hospitalar do Oeste is deeply grateful to all the professionals of the institution, care services or support services, who have carried out their functions in an exemplary way, in this demanding and complex period, so often with personal sacrifice.
A pandemic from COVID-19-19 caused at least 1,313,471 deaths as a result of more than 54 million cases of infection around the world, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 3,381 people died out of 217,301 cases of infection confirmed, according to the most recent Address-General health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected not end of December of 2019, I Wuhan, a city in central China.
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