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Quebec hospital puts security in place to combat disease
Healthcare Security Weekly, December 4, 2006
A Quebec hospital has banned all visitors and stationed security guards at all entrances to the facility in its effort to contain an outbreak of the infectious disease Clostridium difficile.
Seventeen patients were diagnosed with C. difficile infections at the Lanaudiere regional hospital in Joliette, Quebec, reported the Canadian Press. Infected patients were placed in quarantine and cleaning crews are working around the clock to try and prevent further cases. Four people died at the same hospital last April from C. difficile.
Security guards were placed at each entrance to the hospital and were told to make sure anyone entering the hospital washed their hands. The hospital was allowing only humanitarian visits.
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