“It was nonsense! I expected better preparation for reception in our regional hospital because the virus has been in Switzerland for days, “plague a Nyonnaise in”24 hours”, Who reveals his misadventure lived last Saturday.
The woman, who returned from Milan on February 17, was struggling to recover from bronchitis, contracted around Christmas. She phoned her doctor. Who, learning that she had been to Italy, redirected her to the hospital, which referred her to another number on the Canton’s website. “I waited forty minutes without ever getting someone. So I left for the hospital, “she explains in the Vaud daily newspaper.
Three chairs, a makeshift table
In the emergency room, she stands in a corner of the waiting room. Then, when she is registered, she explains that she has difficulty breathing, probably because of her asthma. “When in doubt, we put him in the ambulance garage, where we put three chairs and a makeshift table, with a hand sanitizer on it.”
In the end, it is said, this patient waited three hours in the emergency room, part of which in this unheated garage – she finally asked for a blanket.
Waiting rooms have been reorganized
Nyon officials explain that, to their knowledge, this is a unique case and that the garage had “the advantage of being in direct communication with the emergency room.” As of last weekend, the logistics of preventing people potentially infected with the coronavirus from coming into contact with other people were not yet finalized. The waiting rooms have since been reorganized. And the hospital will soon “install a Portakabin outside the hospital, which will provide waiting, reception and assessment spaces by a doctor.”
Remember that in case of suspected coronavirus, you should not go to the hospital but first call your doctor or the numbers in place – as this Nyonnaise had tried to do. Good news for her however, notes “24 hours”, she learned Monday that her test for the coronavirus was negative.
R.M.
Created: 05.03.2020, 09:10
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