Steve Wyn-Harris was absolutely flattened when he contracted Leptospirosis. “I felt like I’d been run over by a herd of cattle,” the Central Hawke’s Bay farmer said. He is one of 35 people confirmed to have had the notifiable disease in the .
Registered Nurse Nayda Heays will be presenting on a topic close to her heart at a nursing conference in Canada this July: Māori experiences of kidney transplantation. The Hawke’s Bay Hospital Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurse has several whānau members .
To celebrate our midwives and nurses this year, Te Whatu Ora in Te Matau a Māui Hawke’s Bay has produced a booklet highlighting the great mahi happening in our community. Chief Nursing Officer Karyn Bousfield-Black says as people around the .
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Tuesday, 13 July 2021, 2:08 pm
Hawke’s Bay Hospital has postponed some elective
surgery and its restricted visiting policy remains in place
as RSV, (respiratory syncytial virus), presentations
continue in children and increase in adults.
Hawke’s
Bay Hospital currently has 27 children in its paediatric
ward, mostly with respiratory illness. Other acute areas
such as ICU and the Emergency Department remain very busy.
Only one infant was needing ICU level care,
today.
These numbers fluctuate continually as patients
are discharged and others admitted.
Chief Medical and
Dental Officer Robin Whyman said RSV was now affecting
adults especially older people or those with underlying