Hospital Takes Action To Help Keep Viral Outbreak Contained

St Mary’s hospital has halted temporarily due to stomach flu outbreak affecting the hospital.

An increase in the number of cases of stomach flu being brought into the hospital from the community have made the hospital staff take the decision to postpone all planned non-urgent inpatient admissions for routine surgery, however clinically urgent surgery e.g. cancer and emergencies will continue as normal.

Due to trying to minimize the spread of infection, visiting times have been restricted and now essential visits can take place between the hours of 2-3pm and 7-8pm.

Therefore families and friends of patients are asked not to visit, if they have been unwell with either diarrhoea or vomiting in the past 48 hours due to the risk of passing an infection on to other people, until further notice.