35 municipalities have cases of the coronavirus in one or more nursing homes or in the care of older people, writes DR News.
In at least 35 of the country’s municipalities are coronaviruses come into the nursing home and in the care of older people, writes DR News.
DR Nyheder has made a mapping of the country’s 98 municipalities. It shows that in 35 of the municipalities is a single case in a nursing home for more infected.
In the Commune of Frederiksberg have six citizens in the care of older people, who were infected with the coronavirus, lost their lives. In the city of Copenhagen is the 11 persons.
Brønderslev is six residents and nine employees at the same nursing home infected.
– It is what we have feared. Now we can see that the infection really comes into plejehjemmene, where some of the country’s most sick and weak live, says the director of the Alzheimerforeningen Nis Peter Nissen, to DR News.
Director of the Association of Christian Harsløf call it predictable, since it is an epidemic that has spread across the country.
the Municipalities introduced besøgsforbud in nursing homes, as coronasmitten began to spread in the country, but the staff run the risk of bringing the infection into plejehjemmene, ” explains Christian Harsløf.
There are approximately 950 nursing homes in Denmark, writes DR.
on Friday, expressed the trade union FOA) and the Danish Sygeplejeråd concern that there is a lack of protection over the country. This means that more employees in the regions and municipalities are nervous about whether it is safe to care for the elderly.
– There are missing guidelines on whether an employee should give a message in the door of the citizen, or whether one must go to the citizen. It is clear, if there is a lack of protective equipment, so one must prioritize which citizens you go into, said sektorformand in the FOA Torben Hollmann.
It was the Health director, Søren Brostrøm, to recognise that the board needs to look at how to make it more clear.
I come home with a job from here in relation to our guidelines become clearer, said Brostrøm.
the Danish people’s socialordfører Karina Adsbøl call coronavirussets took on the country’s nursing homes for the deeply worrying.
– this is Why it is important that hospitals not printing, the elderly, and send them home to a nursing home. They must be at the hospitals. Otherwise there is a big risk that they come home and infect other residents.
– It is also about prevention. That nurses get protective equipment and that residents and staff are being tested, says Karina Adsbøl.
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