MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Sam Ginoni didn’t discover out till he received to Jackson Memorial Hospital that visitations at the moment are restricted.
“I have a friend of mine here that’s having a procedure. We got here at 6 and they wouldn’t let me go up with him, it seems like it’s starting all over again,” Ginoni mentioned.
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He’ll have to attend hours to see his pal. “I’ve been here since 6 o’clock this morning. 12 hours. I’m not going to go back to Broward to come back down here again in traffic to see him,” he mentioned.
Jackson Memorial Chief Medical Officer Dr. Hany Atallah tells CBS4 that as COVID instances go up, they’ve to regulate visitation guidelines. “We’ve had to roll back our visitation a bit to be a little bit more conservative given the increase of Covid in the community,” Dr. Atallah mentioned.
Now, simply 1 customer is allowed at a time, down from two, for adults, visitation time is from 9 till midday, then once more from 5-9. In the ER – no guests are allowed for grownup sufferers and 1 for kids.
“By limiting the number of visitors we’re limiting the amount of people in the hospital at a time who could potentially lead to infections in the hospital,” Dr. Atallah mentioned.
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We additionally checked with Baptist, Memorial Healthcare and Broward Health. They inform us their visitation guidelines haven’t modified. Most hospitals are seeing elevated covid sufferers. at Jackson they’ve 63 covid sufferers now, up from 40 final Monday. Baptist has 100, up from 69, Memorial is at 88, up from 74 final week. Broward well being has simply 22 covid sufferers, that’s down from 25 final Monday.
Back at Jackson, Lugi Curiulal is a brand new father. With the brand new guidelines he’s ready anxiously to see his daughter within the Newborn ICU — just one individual allowed at a time.
“It’s a little bit difficult because I want to see my daughter. I want to see her and…me or the mother, I have to wait for her to come down and me to go upstairs,” he mentioned.
If you will have plans to go to a pal or liked one within the hospital take a look at the visitation guidelines earlier than you go.
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