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Infection closes the ICU of Sri Lanka's main maternity hospital
Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 12:29 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Apr 24, Colombo: The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Castle Street Maternity Hospital in Colombo was closed yesterday following a death of a patient due to an infection at the unit, the Ministry of Health announced.
A patient with high fever has died in the ICU recently and another patient who was in the ICU has caught the illness. The second patient has been transferred to the De Soyza Maternity Hospital in Colombo.
The hospital authorities had taken measures to prevent the spread of the infection and the Sri Lanka Medical Research Institute has quarantined the ICU. The patients have been provided with masks.
Director General of the Hospital Dr. W.D.K Wickremasinghe told the media since a patient had dies of an infection at the ICU, it is necessary to conduct investigations to isolate the cause for the infection.
However, only the ICU has been closed and the rest of the hospital is functioning normally, the official said.
He said the Ministry has appointed a committee of specialists and a representative from the Communicable Diseases Unit under the directions of the Director General of Health Services Dr. Palitha Mahipala to probe the issue.
Infection closes the ICU of Sri Lanka's main maternity hospital
Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 12:29 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Apr 24, Colombo: The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Castle Street Maternity Hospital in Colombo was closed yesterday following a death of a patient due to an infection at the unit, the Ministry of Health announced.
A patient with high fever has died in the ICU recently and another patient who was in the ICU has caught the illness. The second patient has been transferred to the De Soyza Maternity Hospital in Colombo.
The hospital authorities had taken measures to prevent the spread of the infection and the Sri Lanka Medical Research Institute has quarantined the ICU. The patients have been provided with masks.
Director General of the Hospital Dr. W.D.K Wickremasinghe told the media since a patient had dies of an infection at the ICU, it is necessary to conduct investigations to isolate the cause for the infection.
However, only the ICU has been closed and the rest of the hospital is functioning normally, the official said.
He said the Ministry has appointed a committee of specialists and a representative from the Communicable Diseases Unit under the directions of the Director General of Health Services Dr. Palitha Mahipala to probe the issue.