Inside the wards, we have nurses whose unto most responsibilities are patient care and patients needs. These nurses also have faced the same incidents as the domestic staff have at the entrances. This unsavory behaviour created unnecessary tension to our staff thus they sometimes face difficulties in stopping the visitors form entering and talking noisily to the patients. The second rule for visiting wards is that children under 7 years old are not allowed inside the wards. This was drawn up to protect both children and patients.
Children are most vulnerable as far as infections are concerned.
They can act as reservoirs for the infections which they can get form the patients inside the wards to be passed on to others outside and vice versa. Cleanliness of toilets. Discontented Citizen mentioned the flooded shower room due to blockage and the damaged ceiling panels in the wards. Their staff will attend to the complaints according to priority or else on a first come, first served basis. On plumbing works, the problems will be attended to by a private contractor.