Facemasks are back at the Royal Preston and Chorley Hospital, as ‘dozens of staff a day’ are forced to self-isolate
The Lancashire Post understands that there have been days in the past week when up to 35 LTH staff have tested positive for the virus and so have been unable to work - with the cumulative number of employees self-isolating at any one time consequently being even higher.
Meanwhile, the latest figures show that there were 102 inpatients at Preston and Chorley hospitals who had Covid as of Tuesday - although as the Post reported late last month, it is estimated that only around a third of those admitted during the current wave have ended up on the wards as a direct result of being infected.
“Some of my patients asked me the other day, when I was doing a clinic, why I was still wearing a mask. And I had to explain to them that I see so many patients that I don’t want to pick something up and pass it onto [any of the others]. Even after the rules were relaxed last month, LTH still required masks to be worn on certain wards - and also by anyone entering an area where immunocompromised patients were being treated.
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