Infection control after influenza death

AN ELDERLY woman has died and seven fellow patients are ill after an outbreak of Influenza Type A at a well-known psychiatric hospital in north county Dublin.

Infection control procedures have been put in place at St Ita’s, Portrane, where the woman was on a respite break. She contracted the virus symptoms at St Ita’s and was transferred to Beaumont Hospital on March 16 where she died the following day.

Seven patients in the facility’s Old Age Psychiatry Ward also developed similar flu-like symptoms between March 6 and 18. They were all hospitalised.