Cyprus - Nicosia State Hospital limits visiting hours as a precaution after suspected coronavirus MERS fatality - Patients tested negative

[sharon sanders]

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Home >> Health October 27, 2014, Monday 11:49
State Hospital in Nicosia, MERS measures taken
Dr. Nicosia Burhan Nalbantoğlu State Hospital in the Eastern Ore Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) measures taken on suspicion.

Dr. Nicosia Burhan Nalbantoğlu State Hospital in the Eastern Ore Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) measures taken on suspicion.

Chief Physician Dr. Ramadan Kamiloğlu, Hospital Board of Directors on the latest developments that MERS suspected cases of infection with certain decisions announced that produces Committee.

Kamiloğlu, in a written statement, announcing that the restriction is limited to 17.00 and 19.00 hours and headaches of visiting hours, he said, should be avoided visiting public as possible.

Service on whether to inspection and stating the hospital to do only outpatient examinations Kamiloğlu, Infection Committee of this application "Risk is the middle Longer," the report said would continue until and said that people should show the necessary sensitivity.


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[Gert van der Hoek]

Cyprus - Nicosia State Hospital limits visiting hours as a precaution after suspected coronavirus MERS fatality

Cyprus - Nicosia State Hospital limits visiting hours as a precaution after suspected coronavirus MERS fatality

October 28, 2014

MERS scare in the north

By Evie Andreou

THE death of an 83-year-old woman on Sunday caused panic in the north after suspicions she died from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

According to reports, the woman, who returned from a pilgrimage from Saudi Arabia where the virus was first detected two years ago, was hospitalised with fever, respiratory and heart problems.

Six other people who also returned from Saudi Arabia had complained of respiratory problems and are in quarantine, while the Turkish Cypriot side is in the process of locating all of the passengers that were on board the same flight so they can be tested.

Tissue samples from the dead woman, who was also suffering from a serious heart condition, diabetes, and high blood pressure, have been sent to a lab in Turkey to determine the exact cause of death.

Turkish Cypriot ‘health minister’ Ahmet Gülle was reported saying that it was not certain whether the woman had died from the virus. The other patients were not seriously illl and their chances of recovery were high, he said.

He also said that there was no need for panic and urged people with MERS symptoms (fever, cough, shortness of breath, vomiting, and diarrhea) to go to hospital and seek treatment.

Cyprus Mail

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Cyprus - Nicosia State Hospital limits visiting hours as a precaution after suspected coronavirus MERS fatality

Re: Cyprus - Nicosia State Hospital limits visiting hours as a precaution after suspected coronavirus MERS fatality

Thursday, 30th October, 2014

Two suspected MERS patients to be discharged in north

TWO of the ten patients suspected to suffer from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), are to be discharged, the Turkish Cypriot hospital treating them in the north announced on wednesday.

The announcement said that the two patients? symptoms have disappeared and a process was underway for their discharge.

The hospital also announced that the condition of a patient who was considered as serious on Tuesday was in a more stable condition and the condition of the other patients is also showing progress.

A definite diagnosis can only be made after the results of the tests are ready by the end of the week, the hospital said, and that at present the patients are treated as if they had the disease and that all indicated procedures are being taken.

Cyprus Mail

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Cyprus - Nicosia State Hospital limits visiting hours as a precaution after suspected coronavirus MERS fatality - Tested negative

Re: Cyprus - Nicosia State Hospital limits visiting hours as a precaution after suspected coronavirus MERS fatality - Tested negative

Patients test negative for MERS virus

CYPRUS - FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE ? Monday, 03 November, 2014

HEALTH OFFICIALS in Turkish occupied northern Cyprus have announced that patients taken in a hospital on the suspicion that they contracted MERS are not suffering from the virus.

Speaking at a press conference, health official Dr Omer Gur said that none of the patients - including a woman, who died last week - were suffering from MERS.

Gur said that authorities are taking steps to monitor possible cases of MERS and Ebola.