HIQA REPORT HIGHLIGHTS INFECTION PREVENTION CONCERNS AT WEXFORD GENERAL DURING PANDEMIC
A report on the infection prevention control practices at Wexford General Hospital has found there were specific risks during the pandemic late last year.
The Health Information and Quality Authority made an unannounced visit to the hospital on November 26th to inspect how staff were working to prevent the spread of Covid 19.
The findings show that at that time, patients were not assessed by a clinical decision maker when arriving at the Emergency Department and there was a lack of separation between COVID positive and Covid negative patients.
The report also states there was crossover of staff caring for patients with and without COVID-19 on a regular basis.
The board of the Mater Hospital is made up of medical and non-medical members.
Sources have suggested members of the board who were not given the vaccine as part of their medical role should be offered the option of one because of their importance to the hospital.
Meanwhile, as of Saturday, the vaccination roll-out nationally had administered a first dose to 660,800 people, with 271,524 getting a second dose.
An evaluation of the association between rare blood clots and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is due from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) this week.
Earlier yesterday, a senior official in the EMA said there was a link between the vaccine and very rare blood clots in the brain, but the possible causes were still unknown.
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