They have opened the ward next door again, it’s now accommodating those waiting to be transferred to nursing homes & long term care facilities, bed blockers, those with no family or whose family doesn’t wish to be involved … the overflow. Quite literally! Each patient is reported to be suffering terrible diarrhoea. Within six hours of opening the smell was seeping up the corridor and under the door; that all too familiar bitter odeur.
It’s not really appropriate to place next to a children’s ward, where families are so vulnerable. Our facilities have been cut, and now we are trapped in our little cupboard reluctant to venture out for fear of infection.
The one lone staff toilet (used by three different ward teams) is now out of bounds because it is situated on a corridor and since the opening of the emergency eye clinic all and sundry have been using it. Obviously their ophthalmologic issues cause them to be unable to deposit their waste into the confines of the toilet bowl; getting it on the seat, floor, walls & bin instead (which is odd as they seem unable to get the towels in the bin). With that and all the visitors (carriers) to the ‘slurry’ ward using it also, it’s not a pleasant environment.
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