Covid-19: Positive cases of hemodialysis compel 23 firefighters testing.
The four cases of Covid-19 that turned out to be Hemodialysis Unit of the Hospital de Beja causes 23 firefighters have to do tests. There are two cases “camouflaged” in Beja county.
The Lidador News (LN) revealed on Monday that four users of the Hemodialysis Unit of Hospital de Beja were infected with Covid-19, as a result of the contagion of a Moura patient who underwent hemodialysis in the same room.
Two of the cases relate to patients from Beja and the other two to a patient from Cuba and another from Ferreira do Alentejo.
The LN had informed that the transportation of the patients had been carried out by the Beja and Ferreira do Alentejo Firefighters.
In the face of contact with patients and despite being properly protected, sends the protocol that all those who had contact with the infected, have to be tested, what will happen to 23 operational, and 9 of the Beja Fire Department and 14 Ferreira do Alentejo.
80 cases in the district of Beja.
There are two new cases “camouflaged” in Beja county.
Regarding positive cases in the district of Beja, at yesterday's brifing at the District Operational Coordinating Center (CCOD), was communicated, without revealing numbers by county, the existence of eighty (80) positive cases, wherein 77 concern the municipalities that are within the area of ​​influence of ULSBA and CIMBAL and 3 in the area of ​​Unit Alentejo Litoral Local Health (ULSAL) and Community Intermunicipal Alentejo Litoral (Cimal) specifically the county of Odemira.
In the municipality of Beja are given as confirmed 9 cases, but LN knows that there are two more positive cases in an institution, but that "have not yet been officially revealed".
In the case of the operational of the Moura Fire Department that carried out the transport of the first infected in hemodialysis and that was at the origin of the Espadanal pandemic, the result was negative.
Who manages the service
The Hemodialysis Unit of Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, has long been under concession to the company DaVita Beja, which has several clinics in Portugal and is the dialysis division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., a Fortune 500® company, hails from the United States.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
