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Swine flu ‘nightmare’ as face masks and swab stocks run out
DOCTORS have warned of a “nightmare” week after stocks of face masks and swabs – used to test people for swine flu – ran out and eight schools reported confirmed cases.
Medics have been told to re-use masks and gowns and some practices have ordered in emergency batches of mouth swabs from
private providers after a deluge of calls.
A scramble for treatment followed confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus at at a least seven more schools – including, for the first time, three major secondary schools.
Acland Burghley, Parliament Hill and South Camden Community secondary schools all confirmed cases this week.
One teacher and a pupil were confirmed at Torriano Infants School in Kentish Town. At Fleet Primary School, 10 children are believed to be suffering flu-like symptoms and one child had been given the Tamiflu injection. Children at Christchurch in Hampstead have also been given the same injection.
Beckford Primary School in West Hampstead has 23 confirmed cases and dozens more are awaiting swab test results.
Parents have complained of difficulties in accessing the antiviral Tamiflu, which are stored centrally in University College London Hospital.
Five children at the Hall School in Belsize Park were confirmed on Tuesday last week. |
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