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Re: Jordan - Cluster of 9 people with undiagnosed acute pneumonia: 7 recovered, 1 still hospitalized, 1 dead
Re: Jordan - Cluster of 9 people with undiagnosed acute pneumonia: 7 recovered, 1 still hospitalized, 1 dead
Apparently there is a discrepancy between the Dept of Health and the health care workers at the hospital as to the actual count of cases. I am going to change the title to read "possible 16 cases".
Thanks Alert for following this today.
Re: Jordan - Cluster of 9 people with undiagnosed acute pneumonia: 7 recovered, 1 still hospitalized, 1 dead
Here is a mention of a previous death in the ICU, of an "Asian woman" (from where in Asia?) with similar symptoms.
And this article indicates that the nurse took ill on April 2, considerably earlier than previous reports. This article is also not even internally consistent with its case counts (16 cases? 15? 9?) Could the inclusion in the count of some or all of the unrelated "meningitis" cases in Ramtha be the reason for this discrepancy?
It might be time to send this thread to ProMED.
http://www.addustour.com/ViewTopic....04\LocalAndGover_issue1648_day22_id408613.htm
Hospital infections rise to 16 blue case
Amman, Zarqa, Irbid Constitution Kausar Sawalha
Zahi and the Raja Sahib and the hill
Crisis escalated pneumonia that appeared in the blue government hospital, while the continued assurances of the Ministry of Health that it is disturbing, recorded new cases of the disease to a Department of Internal Medicine doctors at the hospital yesterday morning.
The symptoms, the doctor is the same that appeared on the injured ex-medical staff, with the transfer of the doctor patient for being treated in hospital, Prince Hamzah, while showing injury a close brother of nurse deceased and it has also the necessary treatment, according to medical sources, in addition to injuring a third of a worker in the hospital and receiving treatment in hospital, the Mount of Olives.
Based on the implications of the position held and the Minister of Health, Dr. Abdul-Latif and Wreikat a press conference today at noon to talk about the subject and Mostagdath and clarify many things about what happened and what the nature of the disease.
Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Daifallah Lozi between the results of lab tests will show - at the latest - within 48 hours, and aims to know what type of virus and the severity and gravity.
Lozi and announced in a press statement that all patients with pneumonia from the hospital staff of the blue government fully recovered from the disease.
He said the six nurses who were referred for treatment in a hospital in Prince Hamza left the hospital after full recovery.
He added that the health status of the brother of a good nurse who died and that he will leave the hospital after the final testing to confirm full recovery.
He pointed out that the ministry Lozi taken all preventive measures and treatment since the registration of infection among hospital staff of the blue state.
He stressed that infection control procedures are strictly implemented in the hospital, assured that the situation in which good and that he routinely receives patients and it is not dangerous to them or to the staff working in the hospital.
The Ministry of Health to seasonal pneumonia disease can appear in multiple situations such as this season and that the Ministry is able to deal with this disease and the treatments available to it, describing the injuries as a pandemic can be controlled. Underscoring the number of medical staff that the situation ?troubling and marred by foggy?.
While The Ministry of Health that lab tests conducted in the central laboratory and university laboratories, confirm medical sources other that the samples sent to the three countries in order to ensure that tests and show cause real illness, indicate the number of directories that the problem in the disease (pneumonia) that resistant for treatment.
And the watchers of the state nurse the deceased, which were first infected, the symptoms appeared in the second of this month where he suffered from high fever, cough and stayed ten days, suffering without that there will be no improvement in the condition, noting that they were treated with antibiotics without there is little or no result occurs to the improvement of her condition, which led to the transition to a private hospital for treatment, they moved to the mercy of God after the failure to control the progress of the disease.
The Ministry seeks to know the basis of the transmission, indicates workers in a hospital in the blue to the possibility that the infection has moved from one case to one of the migrant Asian women, had entered the hospital in poor condition and very suffering from symptoms similar to high temperature, where it remained in the intensive care unit and died without is to know the real reasons behind her death.
And the hospital staff is likely that the validity of this possibility is that the staff with the disease is the staff who supervised the treatment expatriate Asian.
The number of workers in the hospital that ?the slow and the Ministry of Health? - according to what he called - is what led to the increasing incidence of the fact that the nurse was the first wounded and then rolled injuries one after the other, asserting that the injuries have exceeded the 15 cases, and it exceeded the medical staff and went to injuring a security and protection of workers and cleaners, that is ?the virus spread in the hospital?.
The hospital staff said blue state that he turned into a ?ghost town?, where during the hospital who had to review it, and not conducted in which only one process for those injured in a traffic accident, after it was normal for surgical procedures ranging from 20 to 25 surgery a day, according to the saying.
In this context, the citizens and workers in a hospital in blue need to ?remove the hospital from the presence of? he became ?the center, B?, indicating that the hygiene non-existent in all its facilities, in addition to the poor condition of the hospital building, which they said will not work with any type of maintenance and restoration.
They indicated to me that in many cases, overflowing sewage on the sections of the hospital without being sterilized or cleaned properly, what makes it natural - as they say - that the place is full of diseases and viruses.
Hospital blue, which has become free, but some of its cadres and medical staff after he was full of vitality and movement and activity by the reviewers patients and visitors, abandoned patients and fled from the precincts and corridors visitors and reviewers for fear of contracting the disease pulmonary mysterious hit 8 of its cadres of medical and nursing and led to the death of nurse working.
At a time disappeared when the movement of the reviewers, active movement of medical personnel from the Ministry of Health after it was cut off many of the sections and started work sterilizing the various sections in the attempt to make a preventive measure for control of the situation that caused panic among the citizens, employees and medical staff alike.
The last steps that were made yesterday that it was evacuating all the wounded to hospital, Prince Hamzah, although laboratory tests have yet to determine the type of disease that leads to disruption of the lungs and the concomitant rise in temperature, leading to a state of confusion and frustration among the reviewers and the sick.
It was rumored among the citizens in the blue state of fear similar to prevail in the hospital, as citizens feared that the disease is transmitted to outside the hospital to become a community. The rumors began to move among the people about the sources of the disease.
News spread of the disease and the death of the nurse pushed a large number of people of the blue to evacuate their patients and taking them to hospitals in the private sector, where reduced or nearly cut off the number of auditors to emergency clinics that are almost empty for fear of this pandemic virus, and now the majority of cases sick go to health centers, comprehensive or clinics State of the Hospital in the neighborhood of Prince Muhammad and the Alaptrawi.
Exercise and medical staff of the remaining work of the center of its keen interest in medical wear protectors (masks) as a precautionary measure to prevent infection, while some of the medical staff failed to work after the announcement of the death.
The hospital is known for the blue state, which was built sixty years ago, he witnessed overcrowding in the number of reviewers being the only public hospital that serves the city of blue around a population of about one million people. The hospital used to record the largest number of divisions to Alemrajaan and private clinics, where she was seen Adkhalath proportions exceed 100% of its capacity.
Furthermore, Al ?constitution? of medical sources informed that a report prepared on the injuries hospital blue government will hand over to the competent authorities, and that the initial information was nominated of the report, attributed the injuries the hospital to the non-application procedures for infection control it and that the development of sterilization in the intensive care unit the very poor condition, and does not apply where the sterilization protocol adopted in such units.
The report stated that the injuries are limited and not pervasive ?pandemic?, which requires follow-up, verification and vigilance to prevent the transformation limited the outbreak to a pandemic.
The report indicated that the reasons germ that struck the cases of hospital blue state is clearly defined, and that there is laboratory testing conducted in the laboratories of several of the Kingdom of Labs Hospital founding King Abdullah University of Science and Technology University of Jordan and Laboratories Ministry of Health and laboratories outside the Kingdom, likely the results of these tests in the near future to determine the nature of the causative bacterium.
The report pointed out that in the event to keep the infection control procedures in many hospitals as it is, it threatens the emergence of future pandemics are unknown parameters and extent are unpredictable and its repercussions on the health of citizens.
Meanwhile, medical sources informed that there was a marked increase in the number of pneumonia cases in various hospitals in the Kingdom for various reasons, including weather developments. They pointed out that these sources should not be confused with what happened in the hospital and hospital blue Ramtha government, asserting that the link is the link between them all the time and that no medical relationship between what happened in the two hospitals.
And asked to medical sources, the ability of health systems used in hospitals and the Ministry of Health to conduct effective epidemiological surveys and can link the recorded cases of different bacterial causes that could lead to a pandemic.
Apparently there is a discrepancy between the Dept of Health and the health care workers at the hospital as to the actual count of cases. I am going to change the title to read "possible 16 cases".
Thanks Alert for following this today.
