22nd March 2011
PLEASE THINK BEFORE YOU VISIT HOSPITAL
Visitors are being asked to think before they visit friends or relatives in Broomfield hospital if they have been unwell with diarrhoea and vomiting.
The Hospital currently has part of the Emergency Assessment Unit (EAU) closed to new admissions and visitors due to a number of patients suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting. This situation is being reviewed on a daily basis.
Russell Harrison, Chief Operating Officer at Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trusts said: ”We know that this virus is usually brought into the hospital from the community so we are asking people to help us by not visiting if they are unwell with diarrhoea and vomiting or until they have been symptom free for at least 48 hours. People should also stay away if they have been in contact recently with anyone that has the virus. Our main objective is to try and prevent infections being brought into the hospital and we need the publics’ help to do this.”
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