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The crash was a rude awakening for Katrina Pereka, who lives next door with her family. She is the kaitiaki, or guardian of Kawakawa Lodge and the car came to rest metres from where she sleeps. “It definitely woke me up. There was a huge banging and I knew it was a crash. “I did go outside and when I first went out there were no cops. Someone else had pulled over to help them.” She didn’t get involved because she was feeling unwell, but said she could hear the driver of the car speaking, and he wasn’t making any sense.
The board would not name the facilities, citing the interests of protecting residents’ privacy. Increased numbers of admissions to Palmerston North Hospital, many with respiratory illnesses, have contributed to a decision to postpone all planned care, except for cancer treatment and the most acute cases. MidCentral Health acute and specialist services operations executive Lyn Horgan said by 11am on Friday 52 elective surgeries had been put off to help free up in-patient beds. Elective surgeries had also been put off in other hospitals around New Zealand, including Waikato and Christchurch. Many hospitals had restricted visiting to children’s wards. Weir said although RSV was not a notifiable disease, it was helpful that aged-care facilities had kept the public health team informed.
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Restrictions on visiting the children’s ward remained in place. Norovirus prompted the closure of ward 24 to incoming patients on July 13, with four suspected and one confirmed case. New patients were not being admitted, there were no discharges going to aged residential care facilities, and visiting was limited to one key caregiver a patient. MidCentral Health nursing and midwifery executive director Celina Eves said no more cases had been confirmed, but two staff members were still off work. The situation would be reviewed again on Wednesday to decide whether the ward could return to normal. Another ward brought in extra infection prevention moves during the weekend to avoid the spread of the outbreak, but had since returned to normal.