All divisions at Parys District Hospital is functioning as before after outsourced disinfection was done at Casualty and the corridors on 27 June.
This follows after a 56 year old patient was admitted at Casualty on 23 June. Due to a high temperature a Covid-19 swab was taken immediately upon admission, and was the patient taken to an isolation room as precausion. Patients at Casualty were also re-directed, while terminal disinfection was done on 25 June.
Sadly the patient passed away on 24 June and as test results was not yet known, the corpse was handled as a positive Covid-19 case.
Test results in the meanwhile did confirm that the patient was Covid-19 positive.
The Department of Health gave the public the asssurance that all Covid-19 operational protocols had been followed with regard to both health workers and patients entering the hospital premises.
