While coronavirussen continue to put a damper on many activities around the country, so goes the health and care staff continue to work where they are every day in contact with some of society’s most vulnerable to the virus.
Unfortunately, many experience, to the necessary protective equipment to avoid the spread of infection, not to be used in a large enough extent. One of them is 61-year-old Jesper Pedersen, who works as a social and health care assistentvikar.
“I had as late as yesterday a patient who was under the observation of the corona. There came a nurse and said to me, that it was not necessary with the visor, when the patient had not tested positive yet,” says Jesper Pedersen B. T.
Anyway, Jesper Pedersen, who is a temp at the hospitals in Region Zealand, to wear protective equipment could protect him, if the concerned patient would be a carrier. The risk of infection makes him still creepy.
And Jesper Pedersen is far from alone.
on Friday convened the board of Health to the press conference, where the Danish Sygeplejeråd, FOA and the medical association were represented.
All the associations will be able to tell whether the stress of the members, who were nervous of infection of others, or even suffer of infection in hospitals and care centers on a lack of protective equipment.
“Our members are experiencing in some places, they are sent off with not much protection, and therefore allowed to put their own body in the place,” said chairman of the Danish Sygeplejeråd, Grete Kristensen.
“It can’t be supposed to go to work evil in the stomach,” stressed she.
Jesper Pedersen also find it crazy that there is no requirement that one must use among other things the visor and one piece, when you have contact with the patients.
“We use smocks that cover the arms, hands and front, like there is mundbind. But other parts of the body are still exposed. For example, the neck, the ears, the hair and the lower part of the legs from the knees down,” he says, and adds:
“There are lots of places where we can run around with the virus on. If you touch it after it has thrown the lab coat, then you can still spread the infection around. I think that it is a ticking time bomb, and jegg is a little afraid to smitteantallet will rise sharply due to the. it is here,” says Jesper Pedersen.
health care Professionals who spread disease in hospitals and nursing homes, has been a major problem in other countries that are hard hit by the coronavirus, and recent days have shown that Denmark is challenged by the same issue.
“We can see that there are more and more people are confirmed infected in the health – and elderly care,” said the director of the national board of Health, Søren Brostrøm, at Friday’s press conference on protective equipment.
And the statistics fear Jesper Pedersen to be a part of.
“I’m more exposed than any other, because I am going so many places. In the same way, I also risky to send around, because I’m doing the opposite of what everybody else should. I have contact with many people, and I can’t keep the distance in my job,” he says.
Jesper Pedersen’s girlfriend, 58-year-old Sina Kalsbøll, is nervous about the risk of infection.
“I’m afraid that he takes the infection with home. I do this to take care of people. I ride in the train each day to work, where I often have to move me around, because people do not keep the distance,” she says and continues:
“I think that it is in vain that I fit so much in, when Jesper is so exposed, as he is,” says Sina Kalsbøll.
Both the medical association, the Danish Sygeplejeråd and FOA calls for better guidelines for staff in the health and care sector, and it promised the director of the national board of Health, Søren Brostrøm, he would look closely at as soon as possible.
