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A HERO nurse saved 13 nursing home residents from the coronavirus using measures she learned from the swine flu epidemic.
Maria Spollin, who runs Church Farm at Skylarks in West Bridgford, Nottingham, became a specialist in advanced forms of life support and disease control during her 20 years at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester.
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And when five of the 50 residents tested positive for the virus on March 22, with eight more symptoms, she knew what to do.
Maria began using the practice called zoning that sees people with a disease in immediate isolation.
A communal area at Church Farm was transformed into a makeshift room where residents displaying symptoms were kept in strict isolation.
Then, patients received 24-hour care for a month.
Ms Spollin ITV: “It was a very difficult decision to make, weighing the consequences if someone had not contracted the virus but was content with people who had contracted it. It was potentially putting them at risk.”
But luckily, all of the residents survived.
Speaking today at Good Morning Britain, he added: “I knew I had to act quickly because if it was a coronavirus we wanted to limit the spread as much as possible.”
“If I didn’t do something very quickly, we risk many more residents and staff members who develop the same symptoms.”
And she said that while she was aware of her health issues in the back of her mind, she had no time to stop and think.
She said: “Ensuring the health and safety of the people we care for was my priority.”
Peter Stevenson was one of the residents who received coronavirus treatment, and his daughter Julia said, “We are incredibly blessed to have such a fabulous team here. I am so relieved that everyone is getting better.”
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Helen Walton, manager of the house, said: “With a nursing home, you know there is a good chance that the coronavirus will come.
“Maria had discussed with us what we should do, so we were well prepared. We had explained to the families in advance what we intended to do and everyone was happy.
“Four staff members worked 24 hours a day to care for the sick. Those staff were isolated from their colleagues and other residents to help prevent the spread of the virus.
“They worked very hard, changed clothes and bedding, and made sure hygiene was of the highest standard. Their professionalism was superb.”
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This week, the number of deaths from coronavirus in the UK rose to more than 26,000, as deaths in nursing homes were finally included.
Homes are the new battleground, as the number of residents dying from the killer bug has continued to accelerate while hospital numbers have declined.
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter of the University of Cambridge said: “We have seen some massive and unprecedented spikes in the number of deaths.
“There has been a massive increase in the number of deaths in nursing homes, about two and a half times the number we would expect.”
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Sir David Behan, CEO of HC One, says that 232, or about two-thirds, of the company’s homes have Covid-19 outbreaks, with 2,447 confirmed or suspected cases, as of April 14.
About 311 residents and a staff member are believed to have died of the disease in the homes of HC One, leaving the staff “helpless,” said Sir David.
A former minister warned that vulnerable residents have been “abandoned like lambs to the slaughterhouse.”
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