The administration of Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) I has placed sanitisers at strategic locations around the medical institution, including its specialist clinics.A QEH spokesman said soap had also been placed at the public toilets on the premises.
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“It is important for our patients, and the loved ones who accompany them, to have access to the necessary hygiene products in order to keep their hands clean,” he said.
“This is especially so in light of the heightened concern about preventing the spread of the coronavirus.”
The administration’s action was prompted by a Luyang patient’s observations about the lack of sanitisers or soaps for the public to use at the QEH’s specialist clinics.
She provided Hotline with the time and date of her most recent visit to the hospital. This information was forwarded to the institution’s management.
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The spokesman said the administrative staff looked into her concerns and immediately set about making the hygiene products she highlighted available to those who came to the hospital.
RITA, a retired pensioner, took the hospital authorities to task for failing to provide sanitisers and soaps for the public to use.
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She said she went for regular eye and stomach check-ups at the QEH and had not seen these products at the clinics for the institution’s Ophthalmology and Gastroenterology departments.
“I related this oversight to a nurse at the latter, at one stage,” she said.
“This individual told me that sanitisers were available and pointed to a dispenser behind the nurses’ counter.”
Rita felt it was unfair of the hospital’s administration to restrict access to this hygiene product, considering calls from medical professionals worldwide for the public to clean their hands diligently.
“Soap is also nowhere to be found inside the public toilets at the specialist clinics.
“I would think that the QEH administration would make it a priority to see that the public can wash their hands properly, given the growing alarm about COVID.”
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She said she even her usual petrol kiosk operator displayed a greater concern for the welfare of his/ her customers.
“If the kiosk owner can provide a bottle of sanitiser for motorists to use, I don’t see why the QEH cannot do the same.“ (SS)