Saudi Arabia - Media report: Doctor infected with coronavirus MERS, maintenance workers strike, people avoiding - King Faisal Hospital - Taif

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This source is based in Egypt. The Saudi government forbids any media reports inside Saudi Arabia unless approved by the Ministry of Health. It is possible the Saudi gov has not sanctioned this media report.


Reports of two deaths and injuries to "Corona"
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أنباء عن وفاتين وإصابة بـ?كورونا?
Fahad Al-Otaibi


I learned "newspaper", from a private source, that there is alert medical severe at King Faisal in Taif, this morning, to the proliferation of the virus, "Corona", and news about the injury of one of the officials of the doctors, and Ofatyn inside the hospital with the virus, as a result of tracking and diagnosis of one of the infected cases.

The source for "citizen", that there are a number of maintenance workers have been on strike and stopped work department of your virus isolation, and refused to fix a malfunction in the lighting section, for fear of transmission of the virus to them.

The source confirmed, that a number of reviewers have suffered panic and fear, and did not find a way to end their actions, but go to private hospitals in the governorate.

http://almamlakaalyoum.net/26890/أنباء-عن-وفاتين-وإصابة-بـكورونا/

[sharon sanders]

Re: Saudi Arabia - Media report: Doctor infected with coronavirus MERS, maintenance workers strike, people avoiding - King Faisal Hospital - Taif

This is not the same hospital where some of the Taif cluster cases have occurred. Last week the Minister of Health toured the King Abdulaziz Hospital in Taif to review the situation and reassure. He is pictured talking to several coronavirus MERS patients at that hospital:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=553263&postcount=3

Current Taif cluster list:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=553307&postcount=5

[sharon sanders]

Re: Saudi Arabia - Media report: Doctor infected with coronavirus MERS, maintenance workers strike, people avoiding - King Faisal Hospital - Taif

Coronavirus cases hospitalized in private hospitals in Taif will be transferred to King Faisal Hospital. Also, reworking the kidney dialysis treatment area at King Abdulaziz to prevent coronavirus MERS:

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Taif: the transfer of infected cases b ?Corona? to King Faisal Hospital
Khaled Aljaid from Taif

Said the "economic" Siraj Hemaidan, media spokesman for Health Affairs in Taif, if any case is detected being infected with "Corona" in private hospitals in the province, will be transferred directly to the King Faisal Hospital only, indicating that it is a referral hospital for "Corona."

The Humaidan, the Health Affairs in Taif, embarked on the application of the mechanisms adopted to combat the "Corona", said Health Affairs, in a statement, yesterday, said that the steps and mechanisms that have been taken include "work on reducing the bed capacity in the kidney dialysis center at King Abdul Aziz Specialist Hospital, so there will be a safe distance between each patient and the last is a two and a half meter, and operation of the center part of the kidney in King Faisal Hospital with a capacity of ten beds, and will be added ten other families soon, in addition to the conversion of some patients with kidney dialysis center at King Abdul Aziz Hospital to the new center, as well as begin to run mobile laboratory that is supplied Finally, on "Corona" where the extracted results for suspected cases within six hours only. " The statement that he was forming an integrated team of specialists to work around the clock to cope with the current situation, and the transfer of certain medical conditions or injuries of various intensive care units in hospitals, which require treatment a long time, to one of the advanced centers in the governorate of Jeddah, and support for large hospitals with many High ambulances equipped to face all circumstances, as well as amendments to the sections allocated for "Corona" in King Faisal Hospital, the statement pointed to the extension of working hours at the center of the kidney in order to reduce the presence of patients at one time.

http://www.aleqt.com/2014/10/23/article_898410.html