ADMISSIONS TO WARD C4 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) were stopped over the last five days after a patient developed suspicious flu-like symptoms.
But communications specialist with the QEH, Julie Carrington, has refuted claims that the ward had been shut down because of nurses complaining of an outbreak of H1N1 influenza.
However, Carrington did say that the ward was closed off to new admissions because a patient there exhibited flu-like symptoms. The patient was eventually moved to an isolated area of the hospital.
It is now expected that admissions to the ward will resume by tomorrow.
Carrington said that in the meantime patients who were already on the ward remained there and were being monitored.
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