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Coronavirus – Chief medical officer orders investigation in old people’s home
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The chief medical officer said on Saturday that she is ordering an investigation into whether residents of an old people’s home run by the municipality of Budapest received proper medical care when an outbreak of novel coronavirus took place in the facility.
A doctor must be employed full time in all institutions where more than 200 people are resident, Cecília Müller noted during an online press conference of the operative board coordinating the response to the epidemic.
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A part-time doctor should be employed for six hours a week where there are 100-200 residents and a doctor working four hours a week in places with fewer than 100 residents, she added.
On Thursday, 126 elderly residents of the care home in Pesti Road were taken to hospital and on Friday, 56 more residents diagnosed with Covid-19 were taken to St. Janos Hospital, Koranyi Pulmanory Hospital and Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Hospital. Müller said the elderly residents experienced mild or no symptoms and none of them needed intensive care or ventilation. They are now under quarantine, she added.
Müller said she had ordered the disinfection of the home with the involvement of the army.
The first diagnosed infection in the home was a staff member, she said. But it’s possible that the virus entered another way, insisting that problems with medical care had been experienced in the home, and this could also have contributed to the outbreak.