HSE: Flu Over in Nursing Home, Health and Safety
A flu outbreak in an Irish nursing home has left seven elderly patients dead. The HSE conducted health and safety audits of the nursing home in the last week and found that the flu has finally ended in the nursing home.
It is officially over as of April 14th, meaning that no other residents will be able to contract the flu strain that killed the seven elderly residents. All of the residents that were suffering from the symptoms and survived have been declared safe from the flu.
No new residents will be admitted to the nursing home until a “deep clean” has been conducted. In other words, until the nursing home is declared safe in terms of health and safety regulations their doors are closed to new patients and residents. The concern over safety restricted any new access. The nursing home will be watched for at least a week and tested for cleanliness for the next week to make certain that the flu is gone and that the place is safe to be opened to the public again. The residents that contracted the flu were separated from the rest of the residents of the nursing home in order to quickly end the issue. Much of the flu was just a mild infection for the general public, but elderly patients can be more susceptible to any disease such as the flu due to age.
