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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
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Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 12:21 pm
Hawke’s Bay Hospital has restricted visiting to its
maternity unit, children’s ward and Special Care Baby Unit
(SCBU), Emergency Department (ED) and Intensive Care Unit to
help prevent further spread of RSV (respiratory syncytial
virus) to very vulnerable newborn babies and sick
children.
Medical director whānau and community’s
Dr Philip Moore said no visitors, other than parents and
main caregivers, would be able to visit Hawke’s Bay
Hospital’s maternity units; Waioha and Ata Rangi or
Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) and the children’s ward to
help protect newborn babies and sick children from catching
His sentence ended in January 2019. Hawke s Bay District Health Board chief executive Keriana Brooking said she learnt this month that an employee of the Coffee Cupboard may have had a criminal conviction and “immediate steps were taken to establish the facts”. The space is leased from the health board by Moist Holdings Ltd, which was formed in December 2019, and lists Darroch as shareholder with 99 per cent of shares.
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Darroch’s coffee shop was near the children s ward, pictured, at Hawke’s Bay Hospital. (File photo) “The DHB met with the leaseholder to require steps to be taken to address the issue. The DHB was advised by the leaseholder on 16 June that the employee was no longer working there,” Brooking said.