Dr. Hatem Abu Al-Qasim, Director of the Cancer Institute, appeared on Friday evening on TV announcements to announce the infection of 15 medical staff with the new Corona virus, adding that “a nurse transmitted the virus to his colleagues, and after making a full survey on the institute, we confirmed that 12 nurses and 3 doctors were infected.”
The story started when we were singled out in “Voice of the Nation” by publishing a report last Monday about a post through a Facebook group that caused panic among a number of patients and medical staff who follow a medical page, because of what was written by Dr. Reem Imad, director of an oncology hospital in Cairo.
The content of the post came: “Unfortunately, the difficult situation in which we are all currently due to irresponsible behavior by some members of the nursing staff is the first nurse without mentioning the names of the infection to his colleagues, I was dealing with a positive situation in a private hospital and took 14 days of house isolation. This was the result of the number of injured being his colleagues, who were in turn a mixture of nurses, workers and doctors (myself included), and we are all currently in contact with the smear and are subject to domestic isolation. One person wasted the effort of all. “
It only took 15 minutes and the post was cleared immediately, but we telephoned the owner of the publication, Dr. Reem Imad, who confirmed that she did not intend to broadcast the panic, but at the same time recognized that two cases of nurses working in the Dar Al Salam Oncology Hospital were present, and they were quarantined. Hospital fevers and their health is good, adding in her statements to “Voice of the Nation” that they are now doing analyzes of cases of contact with women, and most of the tests are negative.
Deny and then confirm
At that time, we contacted by phone Dr. Hatem Abu Al Qasem, dean of the Institute of Oncology at Cairo University, but he denied the presence of infected cases from the nursing staff or doctors with the Corona virus, saying in brief statements: “We originally likened the two chemotherapy sessions because of the corona and because of the crowding and lack of immunity in patients and there is no Any suspected cases or patients with corona. “
But the director of the Oncology Institute, he returned yesterday evening and retracted his denial, and confirmed in press statements what was published by “Voice of the Nation”, regarding the injured cases in the institute.
How did the injury begin?
One of the nurses at the Cancer Institute called (MU) said in a special testimony to “Voice of the Nation” that the infection of 15 people with the Corona virus began when a doctor and two nurses were infected inside the Cancer Institute and not outside it, as a result of having come into contact with a little girl called “Arwa” who came to the institute with her mother for treatment .
He said: The Dean of the Oncology Institute in his statements with Amr Adib said that there is a nurse in our colleague named Syed Mahmoud Shaghal at Hermel Hospital and Al Salam International Hospital, the truth is that our colleague was infected with corona from a child named Arwa who was in the role at the Institute of Oncology and of course the dean said that the injury was our colleague From Al-Salam International Hospital, but our colleague did not spend the month of international peace. The infection was not from international peace sincerely, and when he drew Dr. Reem, he expelled him by righteousness and told him you would accept this infection from his righteousness when he directed the transmission of the infection to more than one nursing.
He added: There is another colleague, Muhammad Nabil, who was infected with the Coronavirus, and is not a non-worker at the Cancer Institute. Also injured was the child Arwa, the doctor and nurses, now in the isolation of Hermel Hospital, and they transmitted the infection to 12 nurses working in Hermel Hospital and the Cancer Institute, and when the 12 they came the Institute mixed Our colleagues all of them had no symptoms.
A source inside the Oncology Institute, who declined to be named, added to “Voice of the Nation” that “the case of the girl who transmitted the infection to the doctor and 2 nurses did not work. It was originally scanned because they say it is not a corona that was followed by Dr. Imad Obaid, head of the pediatric department. As for Dr. Mirihan who was with us in the lip she said Oh doctor, the case is the possibility that Khorn may make her disturbed and told you about your investigation, and the first thing that grew up for the child narrated, Dr. Imad Ebeid, her soul, because it was a special case that came from the clinic with his belongings.
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