They've already had their first pregnant mum who tested positive.
The Melomed Hospitals group is testing all its new admissions for Covid-19 regardless of the reason why people are admitted, to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus, the group said on Monday.
Essential service workers, who are at the front line of nursing, doctoring and cleaning in hospitals, are now increasingly at risk of contracting the virus. For example, a patient at their Kingsway facility on the south coast, initially presented with a stroke, and it was only after discussion with the patient’s doctor that it emerged that he had recently been treated for flu. He subsequently tested positive for Covid-19.
“This practice is absolutely necessary because if the patient is positive, we need to prepare the necessary infection control protocols in respect of the delivery room and the theatre.”The system will have the patients in strictly demarcated separate wards for people who test positive, negative, or who are still a “PIU”.The group’s Dr Shukri Raban, a neonatologist at Melomed Hospitals, said: “If a mother tests negative, she and her baby will be managed as we normally do in the maternity ward.
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