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24/04/2008
Bug-Hit Cancer Ward Turns Away Patients
No further patients are being accepted in a Belfast cancer ward after the outbreak of a 'bug'-induced illness.
The ward, at Belfast City Hospital, has been closed because of a bug, the hospital has said.
It is believed it is norovirus, which causes vomiting, and diarrhoea.
As the hospital said it would not be accepting any more patients onto that ward, observers noted this is not the only such incident to have taken place.
It is the second time this year that a bug has closed wards on the hospital.
It was also hit in January during a nationwide outbreak of the virus.
On that occasion, two wards closed to admissions and at least 20 patients fell ill.
A smaller number of people in the Royal Hospital in west Belfast were also affected.
At the time, Patricia McKeown, of health union Unison, said more staff are needed to help prevent the spread of bugs in hospitals.
"We don't have the people, we don't have the resources, we haven't got the training in there and we don't have the capacity to respond," she said.
(BMcC)
The ward, at Belfast City Hospital, has been closed because of a bug, the hospital has said.
It is believed it is norovirus, which causes vomiting, and diarrhoea.
As the hospital said it would not be accepting any more patients onto that ward, observers noted this is not the only such incident to have taken place.
It is the second time this year that a bug has closed wards on the hospital.
It was also hit in January during a nationwide outbreak of the virus.
On that occasion, two wards closed to admissions and at least 20 patients fell ill.
A smaller number of people in the Royal Hospital in west Belfast were also affected.
At the time, Patricia McKeown, of health union Unison, said more staff are needed to help prevent the spread of bugs in hospitals.
"We don't have the people, we don't have the resources, we haven't got the training in there and we don't have the capacity to respond," she said.
(BMcC)
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