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Australia sets up swine flu clinics

Sally Furniss

Sally Furniss

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SA sets up swine flu clinics

Up to 10 special community flu clinics will be set up near hospitals

South Australian hospitals are setting up separate areas to deal with an anticipated increase in people reporting with swine flu, after two confirmed cases in the state.

Up to 10 special community flu clinics will be set up near hospitals to deal solely with swine flu if outbreaks of the virus become too numerous for hospitals to handle.

A 15-year-old girl and her 40-year-old mother were diagnosed yesterday and are in home isolation.

Another family member, a 12-year-old boy, is also with them awaiting confirmation of the virus after reporting flu-like symptoms.

The boy's school Blackfriars Priory College at Prospect has been shut down until next month after the boy attended school during the likely infectious period.

A school spokesman says there are more than 1,000 students at the school who will work from home with online help from teachers.

The state's chief public health officer Dr Stephen Christley says more cases now seem inevitable.

"The hospitals will look at setting up separate areas in anticipation of perhaps a greater flu burden," he said.

"So they'll be able to move people through and a lot of hospitals have already done that, but they'll look at reinforcing that."

Dr Christley says the health system is prepared for more outbreaks.

"We've got plans to set up special flu clinics near the hospitals and there are also plans to have up to 10 community flu clinics if that's required," he said.

"At this stage we're not anticipating that they will."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/23/2578882.htm
 
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NSW hospitals to get swine flu clinics

New South Wales Health Minister John Della Bosca has announced swine flu clinics will be set up at some public hospitals to assess those showing symptoms of the virus.

The number of confirmed infections in Australia rose sharply again late yesterday to 208, with Tasmania recording its first case.

The clinics will be established at the Royal Prince Alfred (RPA), the Prince of Wales and Liverpool hospitals in Sydney, as well as at the Gosford, Wollongong and John Hunter Hospitals.

Mr Della Bosca says people showing signs of swine flu will be tested and placed in home isolation until the test results are known.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/30/2585220.htm
 
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New Zealand response.

......... assessment centre was set up to ensure people who may have swine flu got treatment without running the risk of them contaminating others when visiting a general practice.

......... Christchurch Hospital this week set up a "red stream", where people suspected of having influenza A can be treated away from other patients.

......... Director-General of Health Stephen McKernan says the community-based plan is looking to relieve some of the load off airports.

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101448


a personal note. Many pharmacy's have a swine flu notice on the door asking people to see their GP and not to enter the shop.
 
another kind of care...

another kind of care...

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The 'waiting room' of the Gold Coast Hospital flu clinic.
Marissa Calligeros
June 1, 2009 - 5:47PM

It's cold, empty and located in a dated office building - hardly the sort of place a sniffling flu victim would choose to convalesce from a bout of Australia's most talked about virus.

The second stand-alone swine flu clinic, partly located in the Gold Coast Hospital staff car park, could be described as sparse at best.

It has been set up to replace the first clinic established at Robina, and will begin testing flu sufferers this week.

Patients with flu-like symptoms are first assessed by two nurses in the "waiting area'' - a blue tent erected in the staff car park.

Those suspected of having contracted the H1N1 virus are then allowed inside and directed to another waiting room where 12 plastic chairs are positioned in rows one metre apart.

From there patients are directed to one of four rooms fitted with a single bed, four plastic chairs and a telephone, where nose and throat swabs are taken for testing. Only four of the nine rooms - each containing a bed and four plastic chairs - are able to accommodate patients at this stage.

Nurses don masks, gloves and biohazard gowns in the hallway before entering the examination rooms. A container of alcohol-based hand gel is located at every door and inside every room.

Facilities seem not dissimilar to those described by the Gold Coast's first swine flu victim Kiralea Campbell as ``third world''.

But Gold Coast Hospital medical director John Gerrard said the clinic had been designed according to the national pandemic plan.

"It is deliberately sparse. We don't want to clutter a space when we are dealing with an infectious disease," Dr Gerrard said.

"It is an outpatient facility, not one where people will stay and be treated."

Dr Gerrard said it was in an ideal location as it directed people with suspected swine flu away from the Gold Coast Hospital's emergency department.

Two doctors from a pool of 50 qualified to test and treat infectious diseases will be stationed at the clinic at any one time, Dr Gerrard said.

He said only those people with a fever and any one of the following symptoms including a cough, sore throat, runny nose or nasal congestion, who have been in contact with a confirmed case, should undergo testing at the clinic.

Those with suspected influenza will be sent home with antiviral medication Tamiflu and asked to remain in isolation for seven days.

Patients awaiting test results at home will also be phoned by public health staff in order to learn about the people with whom they have been in contact.

Nik and Kiralea Campbell, their sons Trae, 2, Jordan, 15, and Josh, 16, and Mr Campbell's mother Gloria, 67, were put into a small room at the hospital with one bed and a chair a fortnight ago after they returned from a holiday aboard the Pacific Dawn.

"They were totally unprepared for us we were given no blankets, no food or medication," Mrs Campbell told reporters last week.

"Our three sons had to lay on the floor. It was terrible, especially the way we were feeling. Queensland Health should have been far better prepared."

The state's swine flu tally today reached 22 cases.

Queensland Health is preparing to open flu clinics at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and Logan Hospital if they are required.


In every pandemic plan there is a non traditional traitement unit plan when hospital become over loaded. Do you remerber the 1918 picture... Ours is supposed to be in a closed hotel...
 
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Tasmania sets up swine flu clinics

Posted Tue Jun 2, 2009 3:35pm AEST

Health authorities have established flu clinics around Tasmania but say they will not be activated until the threat of swine flu in the state becomes more serious.

Siovhan Harpur from the Health Department says flu clinics will only be used if needed.

Two more Tasmanians are being tested for swine flu - one from the north-west, the other from the south.

Health authorities are now waiting for test results for nine Tasmanians.

At this stage mobile teams of nurses are visiting those people who call the flu hotline.

Ms Harpur has told ABC Local Radio five clinics have been set up in the three regional centres, but they will not be activated until it is requested by the Acting Director of Health.

"If she makes a call for us to get them operational she'll give us 48 hours notice to do that," she said.

"We would be able to have them operational in that amount of time but at this point in time, we're doing the background planning for that.

"But we're focussing our attention on giving mobile support so it can go to wherever people are all over the state."

The state's first case of the H1N1 virus was confirmed on Friday.

The Acting Director of Public Health, Dr Chrissie Pickin, says the number of people in home isolation continues to fluctuate.

Forty Tasmanians have been cleared of having the virus.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/02/2587332.htm
 
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