{"id":7395,"date":"2022-11-24T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/western-isles-hospital-takes-steps-against-bacteria-levels\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T02:03:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T02:03:02","slug":"western-isles-hospital-takes-steps-against-bacteria-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/western-isles-hospital-takes-steps-against-bacteria-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Isles Hospital takes steps against bacteria levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A bacteria that can potentially cause a serious lung infection has been found in a cold water system at the largest hospital in the Hebrides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Elevated levels of Legionella species contamination were discovered during work on pipes at Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway, Lewis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">N\ufeffHS Western Isles said the system was separate from the site&#8217;s drinking supply,  which is unaffected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The health board said the risk of contracting Legionnaires disease was extremely low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">B\ufeffut it added that precautions were being taken including three-times daily flushing of the water system throughout the hospital and the provision of bottled water for toothbrushing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">O\ufeffther measures include the provision of portable sinks for handwashing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0x7gy1d710o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bacteria that can potentially cause a serious lung infection has been found in a cold water system at the largest hospital in the Hebrides. Elevated levels of Legionella species contamination were discovered during work on pipes at Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway, Lewis. N\ufeffHS Western Isles said the system was separate from the site&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[4805,79,4804,3684,4043,542,4340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7397,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions\/7397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}