Asked to wait in isolation room in hospital today

v638sg7k1a92bx

I was in Crumlin hospital today with a family member and their child for a follow up on a broken wrist. We drove from the midlands for the appointment at 1 or 2pm (can't remember) and when we arrived we were asked if we had travelled in the last 15 days to which they answered Yes as they had been in France. We were then asked if we had been in a hospital while there which they answered Yes because the childs mother is from France and wanted to get checked in a French hospital while they were there for the mid term and had gotten an x-ray. We were then asked to wait in an isolation room for the doctor, we asked if this was related to the corona virus and were told no that it was some rule from 2011 because we had been in another hospital in another country. They then gave us a pack to collect a stool sample from the child for "SCREENING FOR MULTIDRUG RESISTANT ORGANISM" specifically CRE which we were to bring home and return the stool sample the next time we came to the hospital which would probably be never because the reason we were there was for a broken wrist which had healed???

Anyway, after waiting a few hours we decided to leave as nobody was coming and we had to get back to the midlands to collect another child from creche at 6pm. We got up yo leave and told a staff member who started running around in a panic "wait wait, the doctor will see you now" then a man came in who we thought was a doctor and started asking the child, "how are you feeling, do you feel well?". We explained that we were here for the broken wrist and the person who I thought was a doctor said that they need to doctor X for that. We explained that we had to leave as we were already late and I'm not joking a nurse literally ran off down the corridor to try and find the other doctor. I'm not exaggerating but they were behaving as if they were in some kind of medical emergency the whole thing was utterly bizarre at which point we just looked at each and left.

Does anyone know if this is normal protocol or did this actually have to do with corona and they didn't want to let on?

elperello

Better check back with management in the hospital tomorrow morning.

Stevieluvsye

Read books shorter than the OP

v638sg7k1a92bx

I think that would be a total waste of time.

mickdw

It would appear first doctor was screening for the virus.
It is good to hear that they are at least taking sensible precautions and not letting possible risky patients wander freely through the place.

un5byh7sqpd2x0

Screening for MRSA not Coronavirus

Berties_Horse wrote: »

Were they in 72 point font?

With loads of pictures

Darc19

Google "cre infection" and the st James hosp guidelines come up and seems you were treated exactly as the guidelines.

There are a lot more issues than coronavirus and other illnesses have not gone away.

So fair play to Crumlin for checking if your child has cre which is rather prevalent in French hospitals and which can very easily infect others

You should be congratulating and thanking them rather than complaining.


Here's the guidelines for different countries bu the European center for disease control.

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/directory-guidance-prevention-and-control/prevention-and-control-infections-1

Leg End Reject

So you went to hospital with a child that had previously broken their wrist, but it's now better? Were you worried it had spontaneously rebroken itself?

Can a French national just walk into a French hospital and asked to be "checked"? Did she want to check she was still French? Does that require a stool sample?

v638sg7k1a92bx

Leg End Reject wrote: »

So you went to hospital with a child that had previously broken their wrist, but it's now better? Were you worried it had spontaneously rebroken itself?

Can a French national just walk into a French hospital and asked to be "checked"? Did she want to check she was still French? Does that require a stool sample?

We had an appointment which was arranged by the hospital.thats what happens after you break a bone, you follow up with appointments afterwards to make sure the bone has healed!

Spanish Eyes

The thing that gets me about this is that someone would have to come from Midlands to Dublin for treatment of a child with a broken wrist.

Can that not be done in the nearest hospital, or has the world gone mad. Maybe the child had an underlying condition or complications though.

Leg End Reject

Clare Scary Fog wrote: »

We had an appointment which was arranged by the hospital.thats what happens after you break a bone, you follow up with appointments afterwards to make sure the bone has healed!

Whist you with your faux logic!

v638sg7k1a92bx

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

The thing that gets me about this is that someone would have to come from Midlands to Dublin for treatment of a child with a broken wrist.

Can that not be done in the nearest hospital, or has the world gone mad. Maybe the child had an underlying condition or complications though.

It happened on a school trip to Dublin and they were taken to Crumlin so I guess that’s the reason.