The Fraser Health Hospital New Guidelines Say Patients With Or Without Covid Can Share Rooms

 

 

Patients who are infected with covid 19 may not be separated from the fully vaccinated ones in the Fraser Health hospitals, according to the new guidelines of the authority. According to the revised infection prevention and control recommendations, the Covid cohosting are now being reserved for the patients “requiring medical management of significant respiratory problems.

The document says that the Omicron variant has done no big harm to the people who have been fully vaccinated. So, patients who are fully vaccinated and tested with Covid positive but asymptomatic will be greeted in the unit where they will get the best care and treatment.

The guidelines go that it is important and preferred to keep the covid patients in a single occupancy room. But, if there is no space they will be shifted to a multi-bedroom with a distance of at least 2 meters from each other.

The guidelines also state that “patients on droplet precautions” should not be stayed with the immunocompromised patients such as patients with chronic lung or cardiac diseases.

The covid patients are only to be kept with the fully vaccinated people in the same room and should be provided with dedicated toileting, The guidelines added further.

So, the questions come with this step by the Fraser Health hospitals whether the recommendations are the same for the other hospitals or unique in the case of the Fraser.

Health Minister Adrian Dix was asked about this, he stated that more than 500 covid patients are there in Fraser Health. Out of them, 10 % are in some of the facilities. He said, “It makes all of our systems of cohosting more difficult when we have a record number of patients.”

“They are still working in cohosting, but it seems impossible when you have people coming into hospital not because they’re sick with Covid-19 but for other reasons, who we test and are testing positive for covid 19”-Dix

Spokesperson Mike Old said, “If Fraser Health has come to the point of cohosting patients who have covid positive, that is a real departure from the past practices.” Showing concern over the situation of the hospitals he added, “…it’s a real indication of how serious things are in our hospitals”