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Two Sanglah Hospital nurses placed in isolation after developing fever, cough
Hospital management decided to isolate them as they had had contact with Case 25, reportedly a British woman, who had died of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
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Doctor Raul V. Destura (not pictured) presents the UP Test Kit for the COVID-19 coronavirus during a press briefing held at the Genome Center in UP Diliman in Quezon City, the Philippines, on March 12. (AFP/Maria TAN)
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wo nurses working at Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar, Bali, have been placed in the hospital’s isolation ward after showing symptoms of COVID-19.
The two nurses came down with a fever and experienced coughing. Hospital management decided to isolate them as they had had contact with Case 25, reportedly a British woman, who had died of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
“They have a history of handling the patient with COVID-19,” Sanglah Hospital director Wayan Sudana said on Thursday.
He suspects, however, that the two nurses were simply overworked from handling a rise in patients placed under observation for the new coronavirus.
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“As [our] workload here has increased. Two of our staff members have developed a fever and a cough – maybe because they are too tired. However, because they have a fever, we placed them in isolation.”
The move, he added, was simply a precautionary measure.
“They are now in good condition.”
Following the increasing number of patients under COVID-19 observation at the hospital, Sudana said, the medical team had had to work harder.
“We have a limited team, so they are all very tired,” he added.
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Sanglah Hospital has asked the Bali Health Agency for more nurses from other hospitals in Indonesia.
“We have tried to add the number of personnel in our team. But it has not been enough,” Sudana said.
The hospital requires 36 nurses to handle patients under observation for COVID-19 but currently has only 20.
“We’ve asked for 16 more nurses, so as not to overtire our team,” said Sudana.
