Report: Kota Kinabalu hospital’s ICU paralysed after nurse gets Covid-19, colleagues forced into quarantine | Malay Mail

Healthcare workers carry out Covid-19 screening for those with a recent travel history to Sabah at Selcare Clinic in Shah Alam October 4, 2020. — Picture by Hari Anggara

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10 — Healthcare workers at the intensive care unit of Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah are struggling to cope with their workload after over half the nurses in the department were forced to self-quarantine.reported that 40 of the 66 nurses manning the ICU wards were quarantined after one of their colleagues tested positive for Covid-19.

Citing sources from the hospital, the report said that the staff member was believed to have contracted infection from the community before going to work.This is especially when the hospital is tasked with handling all non-Covid-19 ICU patients from Queen Elizabeth I Hospital, which is also in Kota Kinabalu.“All precautionary and treatment measures have been undertaken.

Dr Adham reportedly said efforts were underway to reinforce the medical team at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital’s ICU ward.reported that with just 26 nurses left, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital has had to transfer out at least two patients from its ICU ward. The portal said it was informed that some of the quarantined nurses have begun showing symptoms of Covid-19 infection but that these still needed confirmation from testing.

If anything happens to theses frontliners who will put food on the tables of their families? KKMPutrajaya chedetofficial MuhyiddinYassin DrAdhamBaba MKNJPM PKPG30

ICU paralysed? Fake news & scaremongering. I'd rather believe the Health DG than Malay Mail.

This is the consequence of the recent snap election which in turn was due to one power crazy idiot.

Allahuakbar 😢

Eeekkkkk. That's not good

The coronavirus is Mongolian biological weapon! If don't believe it, they may slowly end killing humanity!

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