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Hospital readies for Ebola Desmond Devoy
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Walking the walk
Kelly Kent/METROLAND
The Stoddard family enjoyed some quality time together as zombies at the Zombie Walk, going all-out with their costumes. The dead rose a little early this year in Smiths Falls, choosing to roam the streets not on Halloween but on the night of Saturday, Sept. 18.
Municipal election day arrives Monday, Oct. 27 News – Months of hard work – knocking on doors, meeting with constituents, attending all-candidate meetings – all in an effort to share their platforms with voters, will culminate in Monday’s municipal election for dozens of local candidates. In Smiths Falls, four candidates have come forward to run for mayor. Regard-
less of the victor, it will signal a new chapter for the community with the retirement of long-time mayor Dennis Staples. There’s also a full slate of contenders for the councillor position, making decision day for electors that much more challenging. It’s the same in the surrounding townships where a number of good rac-
es have developed. See page SF14 for a complete list of candidates and visit our municipal election website – www. insideottawavalley.com/ottawavalleynews/municipal-election – for candidate profiles and more. And check the Record News website on election night – www. insideottawavalley.com/smithsfalls-on – for the results as they roll in.
News – The Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital has been preparing for four weeks for the potential arrival of Ebola in the area. “We have been actively preparing for the situation where we might see a patient with Ebola,” said Linda Bisonette, the hospital’s outgoing president and chief executive officer (CEO), during a telephone interview on Monday, Oct. 20. More than 100 staffers have been trained in proper procedures at both the Smiths Falls and Perth sites, and “we need to continue to train… for the foreseeable future.” The hospital’s new president and CEO, Beverley McFarlane, who took over the reins on Oct. 6, but has been working alongside Bisonette leading up to her Oct. 31 retirement, said she was impressed with what she saw. “I was really impressed with the training of staff,” McFarlane said. “I would say they were in front of the curve,” in terms of preparation, she said, even before directives were issued from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. About 500 pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) will be available to staff at each campus, and Bisonette was “confident that personal protective equipment will cover them,” following on complaints from American nursing unions that their PPE’s did not properly cover their members. Following the SARS outbreak of 2003, the provincial government man-
dated that all Ontario hospitals had to have a “negative air pressure room,” and both sites have one, with an ante room for medical staff to put their PPEs on, “so that is protecting everyone,” with a “buddy” helping them off and on with their suits. McFarlane noted that all of the suits are disposable. The “plan of action,” is to have as few medical staffers as possible interacting with the patient believed to have the disease, a one-to-one ratio, if at all possible. “We would dedicate staff to that person and that room,” Bisonette said. While both hospitals have signs up asking patients to provide information on their travels and symptoms when they present themselves at the emergency room, “we are asking them at triage,” said Bisonette, about any travelling they have done recently. While it takes a while for an Ebola diagnosis to be delivered, once a case has been confirmed, they would likely be taken to a referral centre in either Kingston or Ottawa. “We would not be admitting people with a positive test for Ebola,” Bisonette said. According to a press release from the hospital, issued this past Monday, “Ebola is a viral illness which has an incubation of (between) two and 21 days following contact with blood or body fluids of an individual who is showing signs of illness from the virus. Transmission is solely through contact. People who do not have contact will not become ill.”
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