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The Hospital staff keeps bags of donated water bottles

As the nationals are banned from visiting patients with Covid-19 it is, of course, that she was on the phone for information, but The Sheer amount of calls for the creation of problems in Bradford Royal Infirmary. So, like Dr. John Wright explains, The Hospital had to try some new ideas.

Monday 13 April

In normal times, Easter was a special day for families to come together, in The Hospital just like Anywhere Else . This is now impossible. In our hospital, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, separated from their loved ones.

Many people have a phone instead, but the staff on the stations ragged at The Moment to run. You take the pressure away from you, The Hospital , a new phone, where nurses and admin staff with medical records accurate information in a quiet environment.

In The First week, the new team took 1,300 calls. We started with four lines, and now we're up to eight, and may expand that as well. And it's not just health updates that people need.

Emily, a Staff Nurse , who told the nationals' Line, a call from A Woman whose father was Will be to rewrite in intensive care, but conscious, and wanted to. This is one of those times when people say, "do you Have a Testament?" - so I think we go right, to see more and more of this.

Emily also told me of a call from A Woman whose husband was in the intensive care unit (ICU) on a ventilator. The Woman was desperate and just wanted to say to arouse your man"".

Prof John Wright , a physician and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research. He cares for patients in epidemics around The World , including cholera, HIV, and ebola outbreaks in Africa South of the Sahara. In The Next few weeks he Will be reporting for The Bbc , such as The Hospital , the Bradford Royal Infirmary, is dealing with Covid-19.

you can read his previous diary entries:

"I offered the option of sending a message to him, because I know ICU nurses you speak to do with their patients while on ventilators," Emily told me. "And so I typed a message for you, a relationship with him. "

There is now also a own E-Mail Inbox, which allows you to send people personal messages or photos printed and to your loved ones, and it Will soon be a website where people can also do this. One of the Bradford schools also has a great post card, the staff shorter can write messages and deliver them to the stations.

I spoke with a nurse, after she came from a phone conversation with A Woman whose mother is dying Covid-19 was in The Hospital . The Caller 's mother had originally gone to The Hospital for an operation on her hip, but was diagnosed with coronavirus. The Daughter had said that she could not visit, and had, understandably, were really upset about it.

she was then able to E-Mail, in a letter. This Was sent to the sisters on the Station, and it gave her great comfort to know that staff had sat with her mother and read The Letter to her.

We all have Taken Away the freedom to visit, and it is absolutely right, we should use the technology to people in contact with each other.

On the Covid stations, the patients in different stages of the disease be of the acute attacks to slow remission. The fact that they are not allowed, it means visits that the care try forces, even harder than usual to support patients with emotional, respiratory consultant, Leanne Cheyne says to me.

"It's pretty scary, because this is a condition we have never seen before. I think everyone to know the really interested in, when we have other like you, and whether you have recovered," she said.

reassured of The Recovery of the other patients is helpful for you, she says. "It gives you more hope about what The Future might bring.

Three weeks after the UK lockdown was announced with a delay, we have now had over 300 definitive cases of Covid-19. Of those, 46 have died.

of course, We Are used to patients dying in The Hospital , but not in this Tempo, so that changes had to be Made in The Hospital morgue.

Martin Walker -the morgue manager is telling me that he previously a co-worker. Now there are five employees, instead of two, and they work Seven Days per week.

contingency plans for a further increase of the death cases also Preparations in place to store bodies temporarily to a location outside of the clinic, if this is necessary, and the staff of the funeral company, 24 hours A Day . This is partly so that funeral Directors, their fridges are full, says Martin , can come and collect the bodies, if you are able to.

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"It is important that we have a constant flow of release to help us, our capacity issues," explains Martin .

Some of The Changes that Martin is dealing with those who are similar to the stations.

Martin Walker the visitors to go away

people who died had to, with Covid-19-nor contagious, so it is important for all funeral homes, employees handling a body to wear personal protective equipment.

He also has to be aware of the possible emotional impact on its employees.

"We're talking about a wave, load that very feeling when you cases, dealing with so many deaths in a short period of time," he says.

"We expect all age groups, and I have to prepare you for children and younger people. So until that comes, I think, it is difficult to assess how each copes. "

And here, in the morgue, which is The Hospital 's policy that no visitors are allowed, so Martin has had to be removed, grieving people.

previously, they were understanding.

"you understand that we meet as NHS workers, we have the decision and look after each other and staff, and our families," says Martin . "It is upsetting for you. It is upsetting for us to do that. But it is understandable, at least for The Moment . "

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