HIQA highlights poor hygiene standards at flu deaths nursing home

A nursing home at the centre of a deadly influenza outbreak had insufficient measures in place to detect the illness early, health chiefs have said.

HIQA highlights poor hygiene standards at flu deaths nursing home

A nursing home at the centre of a deadly influenza outbreak had insufficient measures in place to detect the illness early, health chiefs have said.

A new report following an investigation into Nazareth House private care home in Co Donegal, where seven elderly residents died in the space of just two weeks, found there was no procedure to identify the onset of flu.

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