BBCThu, 27 Jun 2024 19:27 UTC
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust says masks will come into effect immediately, and remain until further notice
Face mask rules have been reintroduced at acute hospitals in Worcestershire after a rise in the number of patients developing Covid-19.
The policy applies to staff, patients and visitors, and covers all clinical areas at Redditch's Alexandra, Kidderminster, and the Worcestershire Royal hospitals.
In a statement, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (WAH) said the measure was "necessary to protect patients, their loved ones, and our hospital staff from the risk of infection".
The trust said it was currently treating 65 patients with Covid-19, the "highest number" since December 2023.
"This is the highest number of Covid positive inpatients seen since December 2023,
the amount of time our Covid positive patients need to be in hospital is increasing suggesting that they are also more seriously ill," a spokesperson said.
The trust said the measures would be applied with immediate effect, and would stay in place until further notice.
Masks are being made available at all sites.
Comment: Considering the plethora of issues caused by prolonged mask wearing - including a lack of oxygen and the prevelance of bacteria - that's rather unfortunate for the patients that the hospital claims it wants to help. More so because a number of those people will have received yet another experimental covid jab over the winter, which might be the cause of the spikes we're seeing; and the accumulated harm these jabs are likely causing is probably why these patients are more seriously ill than ever before.
All things considered, the human body is, evidently, profoundly resilient to this barrage of abuse.
But, what's perhaps most revealing is how both the health service, and people, have yet to learn anything from the contrived coronavirus crisis, and worse, at the flick of a hysteria-switch they will revert to these programmed behaviours.
Seems about right to me....