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  • Saudi Arabia - 7 health care workers suspected novel coronavirus MERS cases: 3 in isolation at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah

    7 suspected cases Pkorona at a government hospital in Jeddah, and the transfer of 3 for insulation in a "special "
    Doctors are demanding b ? isolation rooms ? The hospital provides gags and emphasizes the role of hygiene

    Turki Al-Qahtani - Jeddah
    Wednesday, 02/04/2014
    7 suspected cases Pkorona at a government hospital in Jeddah, and the transfer of 3 for insulation in a "special "
    Mobilized the Department of King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah yesterday efforts after suspected cases of seven of its cadres medical b ? virus Coruna ? , said an official source at the King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah for ? City? that 4 of the hospital staff - three doctors and a nurse - have complained about the high degree of their heat to 40 degrees Celsius , he said, adding that he was also suspected in 3 of the nurses , were rushed to a hospital Irfan and put them in rooms ? isolate ? until the completion of the test results show stressing the desire of the hospital to give patients and staff precautionary vaccines against viruses in general .
    A source familiar with the King Abdulaziz Hospital in Jeddah that the pathogen infected SK Bandar Alkatiri is still languishing in a isolation rooms and the results of pathogen infected uncle appeared , which confirmed non- exposure to the virus Corona .
    He added that the hospital administration has reacted to provide masks and gloves from warehouses and activating the role of maintenance and cleanliness clearly and continuously.
    He pointed out that the hospital administration has set up an educational session for Corona virus and was attended by doctors , nurses and the number of workers at different times and alternating .
    He was Director General of Health Affairs in Makkah Region Dr. Abdul Salam Noor , Crown has confirmed - in an earlier statement - that he visited the nurse who suffers from Alkatiri ? Koruna ? yesterday at King Abdulaziz Hospital in Jeddah ..
    The director of health affairs in the province of Jeddah Dr. Sami Badawoud in a press statement yesterday that the interest in the situation of the patient began from the first moment , as has been the formation of a medical team comprising a number of consultants from King Abdulaziz Hospital and the King Faisal Specialist Hospital , pointing to the existence of constant monitoring of the situation , as is supplied daily with a detailed report of the medical team treating the situation , and to ensure the availability of potential medical , and nursing .
    He emphasized the importance of providing necessary medical services to the injured nurse , indicating that it was conducting a survey of the medical staff at the hospital , and the contacts of the case , as the analysis showed that the results are negative , as it was stressed the necessity of workers to take preventive measures and precautions in such cases .
    For their part, demanded a number of doctors and nurses intervention of the Ministry of Health to find a solution for such cases , which have become every day are monitoring the suspected case where the ministry can mobilize management and supports hospitals Jeddah medical devices and examining doctors and take the necessary tests and increasing isolation rooms to the fact that we are suffering in The majority of our hospitals lack isolation rooms continuously and permanently.
    The grandmother saw the first case of infection ? Corona ? the young man Bandar Alkatiri , who works as a nurse emergencies King Abdulaziz Hospital in Jeddah for nearly the last week where he fell suddenly after being tired of fatigue in front of his colleagues in the recovery room of emergency to be placed under the ventilator and transferred to the intensive care unit for three days to diagnose his condition.
    He said one of the doctors at the hospital said Bender suffered a sudden fatigue and fell in front of his colleagues, who transferred from the recovery room in a medical emergency unprepared for being a witness receive more than 10 to 15 patients conducting a ventilator and all of them near some without insulation .


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    Re: Saudi Arabia - 7 suspected novel coronavirus MERS cases: 3 in isolation at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah

    This is a different hospital where a 27(26) year old nurse is hospitalized as a confirmed novel coronavirus case:

    King Abdul Aziz Hospital in Jeddah:

    Saudi Arabia - MoH confirms man, 27, health care worker, tested positive for novel coronavirus

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      Saudi Arabia - 7 health care workers suspected novel coronavirus MERS cases: 3 in isolation at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah

      [Source: Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, full page in Arabic: (LINK). Automatic translation.]


      Saudi Arabia MoH reported three new cases of MERS-CoV

      (April 2 2014)


      In the context of the work of epidemiological investigation and ongoing follow-up carried out by the Ministry of Health for the novel coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Middle (MERS COV), Ministry announces registration for three cases of the virus.

      The first case is a 26 years old from the province of Jeddah and works in the health care sector, currently receiving treatment in intensive care.

      The second case is a 77 years old from the Riyadh region and suffers from several chronic diseases, currently in stable condition and thankfully.

      The third case is a 59 years old from Riyadh region, suffering from several chronic diseases, currently receiving treatment in intensive care.

      We ask God for their speedy recovery.


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        Re: Saudi Arabia - 7 health care workers suspected novel coronavirus MERS cases: 3 in isolation at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah

        machine translation

        Governor of Jeddah directed to take precautions to face the Corona virus
        Jeddah: SPA
        April 2, 2014

        Face Prince Mishaal bin Majed bin Abdul Aziz, Governor of Jeddah, Health Affairs to maintain an urgent basis to take precautions to deal with injuries and illness Corona virus, if any.

        As explained Director of Health Affairs, Dr. Sami Badawoud maintain that a survey of clinical Mkhaltin two cases previously infected, pointing out that the analysis has shown that the results are negative thankfully.

        Dr Badawoud that Health Affairs in Jeddah has taken all precautions
        against these diseases and conditions


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          Re: Saudi Arabia - 7 health care workers suspected novel coronavirus MERS cases: 3 in isolation at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah

          The 2 cases corona referred to here are:

          #211 - Patient, 26, Jeddah, currently receiving treatment in intensive care - possibly health care worker according to media reports - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Please note: This case was reported by the MoH on March 28.

          #213 - Man - 26, from the province of Jeddah and works in the health care sector, currently receiving treatment in intensive care - Saudi Arabia Please note: This case was reported April 2.


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          Health Jeddah» scan 350 people monitored after two cases of «Corona»
          June 3, 2014

          At King Abdul Aziz Hospital and University Hospital

          Jeddah: Happy White
          subjected Health Affairs in Jeddah (western Saudi Arabia), about 350 people from the staff of doctors and staff at King Abdul Aziz Hospital, and University Hospital, as well as relatives of people living with Corona «doctor, nurse», for laboratory testing to ensure their safety and that they do not the virus.

          The move came Affairs health after the disclosure of the second case last Wednesday in a government hospitals supervised by the Health, which proved lab results passivity of the workers and with the patient, in an attempt to control the spread of the virus, while adsorbed medical team on the way medical procedures and treatments.

          Saw Jeddah during the past two days, a state of anticipation and warning through social networking sites not to go, or the proximity of a number of locations, and in the majority of hospitals belonging to the Health Affairs, to the spread of HIV Coruna in the number of doctors and nurses in these hospitals, while the increased pace of the warning on Wednesday, with the spread of the news death case infected with the virus.

          Dr Sami Badawoud, Director of Health Affairs in Jeddah, in connection with the «Middle East», the number of cases detected and infected with Corona during the past two days two cases, one in King Abdul Aziz Hospital, and the other at the University Hospital, both of which are subject to medical care and under medical supervision integrated. He Badawoud, the Health Affairs In a proactive step in anticipation of the spread of the virus has examined 350 people, including those with the patient and the hospital staff, which sits by the infected cases and proven tests negative results and lack of exposure to the virus, noting that he has not yet registered any cases of the virus in the King Fahd Hospital . The Director of Health Affairs in Jeddah, said that his administration has a transparency in the transfer of information health of all citizens, surprising rumors in this context of the injury of more than seven cases in a lot of sites without reference to sources in the transfer of such information which adversely affect the community, explaining that his administration is working according to the general strategy of the Ministry of Health to combat the virus Corona.

          Since the discovery of the virus Corona, the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia, all measures that began in communion with all the world specialized in this field, while formed a scientific committees permanent problem for a number of agencies, to monitor the situation and monitoring in all Saudi cities, and equipped health at the time a laboratory regionally in Jeddah to examine the samples, and the application of the recommendations of international bodies and organizations competent in testing, with an update of the list of requirements for a healthy arrivals for Umrah and Hajj applied in the last season.

          Said Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Specialist Internists, the symptoms caused by infection with Corona are: fever, cough, accompanied by diarrhea and vomiting, has infected a patient with difficulty in breathing, repeated for up-to-severe symptoms of breath lead to death, pointing out that it is difficult to recognize the patient that infected with the virus only after a diagnosis in major hospitals, which has potential in the laboratory to identify the disease. He said Dr Mohammed, that if the virus detection must address the patient's antihypertensive drugs heat and analgesics, with a lot of drinking fluids and eating healthy food, and the need to limit the operations out of the patient's home, and the use of incest during sneezing, coughing and disposed of directly, with the importance of the non-participation of the tools around the patient to prevent the spread of the virus and to control it.

          It is noteworthy that the number of people living with HIV, since his debut in September 2012, 163 were injured at the level of Saudi Arabia, of whom 64 died of the case, according to the electronic gate of the Ministry of Health allocated to the new Corona virus.

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