Santa Monica Hospital suspends service due to H1N1

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Santa Monica Hospital suspends service due to H1N1
09h43, March 12, 2010
Claudia Galv?o

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Director of Santa Monica, Jos? Carlos SilverThe Maternity Teaching Hospital Santa Monica, the main unit of the health care aimed at the high-risk pregnancies, the Unified Health System, has temporarily suspended the service.

In a press release, the general management of the unit said the service was suspended in compliance with the Protocol of the Ministry of Health, regarding the H1N1 virus, better known as Influenza A. On Thursday, day 11, the State Department of Health confirmed the first case of death in the state due to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which was a youth of 30 years, who died in the Hospital H?lvio Auto.

According to a spokesperson for the Santa Monica, there are currently three patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a newborn in the Intensive Care Unit Care Unit (ICU Neo), precluding leave to receive new patients, since the drive - in theory - serves only high-risk cases.

The temporary closure of Santa Monica - the suspension of service will depend on the clinical evolution of patients in hospital - following the determination of the protocol established by the Ministry of Health and health authorities.

According to the general manager of the clinic, Jose Carlos Silver, all necessary procedures to protect patients from Santa Monica have already been adopted. Silver points out that patients with a profile that would be identified to the maternity hospital will be sent to University Hospital or other hospitals.

"Right now we need the understanding and collaboration of all professionals in hospitals in the state in order to fulfill our ultimate goal which is to care and save lives," said the manager.

Follows the note in full:

PRESS RELEASE

Maternity School Santa Monica, in view of the existence of three (03) patients admitted to the ICU Maternal initially diagnosed with SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) has technical responsibility for civilian and communicate:

a) As the current protocols of the Ministry of Health and complying CCIH Technical Guidelines (Committee on Infection Control) of the same, we are unable to get patients to hospital, until they are in technical and hygienic conditions;

b) have been reported the State Secretary for Health, Municipal Secretary of Health and Dean of UNCISAL;

c) We are together, seeking immediate solutions in an attempt to bring assistance to other units.

Jos? Carlos Souza Silver

Manager

Source: With advice

 

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Re: Santa Monica Hospital suspends service due to H1N1

Macei? - The Motherhood Holy School M?nica, in Macei?, was reopened partially last night, after two of three women interned with suspects flu A they were transferred of the Unity of Intensive Therapy (ICU) to wards of isolation of the same unity of health. The motherhood had been closed in Friday, because of the observation of three pregnant ones with suspicion of the pig flu. But as the parturient women follow without foresight of rise, the direction of the motherhood informed what it only is receiving pregnant with situation of high risk. Too many pregnant women who reach the Saint M?nica, who stays in the district of the Well, are being directed to other maternity hospitals of particular hospitals that attend for the System Only one of Health (SUS) .S According to the general manager of the Saint M?nica, Jos? Carlos Silver, the improvement in the picture of health of the women and the consequent unemployment of the beds of ICU, fez so that the medical team opted for the reopening of the motherhood, but only for service to the patients of high risk. Silver said still that there is necessary a process of disinfection of the ICU to guarantee that other patients should not be contaminated. In agreement with the general manager, another woman interned with suspicion of the flu A still presents picture of respiratory sharp serious syndrome and is entubada in the ICU. The interned baby follows already in the Unity of intensive Cares (UCI), and his picture of health also inspires cares. In Thursday, the State General office of Health announced the first death in the State as a result of the contamination for the virus H1N1. The victim of the flu A was a 30-year-old man, who died interned in the Hospital H?vio Auto, which belongs to the State and answers for the SUS, in the Warehouse of the Bar, in Macei?. According to the state secretary of Health, Herbert Motta, in Pools, up to now, 118 suspect cases of the flu were already notified A. Of this 34 H1N1, 24 were confirmed for influenza A they are under investigation, 46 were discarded and 14 confirmed ones like common flu.

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