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– We think first and foremost on the bereaved, ” says mayor Jan Oddvar Skisland in Kristiansand municipality.
on Monday, one week ago it became known that two residents had died by Stener Heyerdahl care center in Kristiansand, norway after having been infected by the koronaviruset.
Most likely, the occupants become infected by health care professionals who do not have symptoms of infection as omsorgssenteret has been closed to visitors.
Criticized to drop the quarantine,
Kommuneoverlege Dagfinn Haarr has been criticized for not having put the employee in quarantine. He has justified the decision with that the quarantine is likely to have little benefit in a closed sykehjemsmiljø. Moreover, that comprehensive karantenetiltak would paralyzed business at the same time that it is challenging to get into another health care professional in a short time.
Fylkeslegen of Agder, Anne-Sofie Syvertsen, has previously discussed the situation at the omsorgssenteret for “one skrekkscenario”. Last week was all 50 employees at the institution tested for koronasmitte. The result showed that seven sykehjemsansatte was infected.
the Fourth death in the municipality of
Sad death is the fourth death in the Kristiansand municipality. In addition to the three dead by Stener Heyerdahl also died a resident of koronasmitte by Ternevig care center.
In connection with the death in the sanctified do not want the municipality to inform about the older resident’s general state of health prior to the koronasmitte. But it must be stated that there are other conditions which made that the resident had to stay in a nursing home.
It has been working well and systematically with the isolation, testing and information by Stener Heyerdahl care center, type kommuneoverlege Dagfinn Haarr in a press release.
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