A few days ago, 180 employees in the Roosevelt Hospital in Banská Bystrica tormented digestive problems. Initially, they thought they had received salmonellosis, which was excluded by laboratory examinations. As they informed, Employees confirmed a highly contagious norovirus. Patients were not infect.
“It is transmitted whether it is a contact with a sick person or a contaminated diet, food or even surfaces,“Monika Trnovecová explained the Nursing Deputy Nursing Hospital. Despite the fact that nearly 200 employees were ill, the hospital did not endanger. We have prepared plans to move staff or to provide a planned and acute operational program, ”she added.
The hospital took measures. “The disinfection of surface areas has been ordered beyond the standard hygiene and epidemiological regime,“A spokeswoman for Roosevelt Hospital added Ružen Matašeje.
