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| Ward closes following MRSA fears | |
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| Ten patients at a County Fermanagh hospital are being closely monitored after they were found to be carrying the MRSA bug. | |
| One of the wards at the Erne Hospital in Enniskillen has now been closed to new admissions. | |
| A Western Health and Social Care Trust spokeswoman said all necessary precautions were being taken. | |
| It is not clear whether the elderly patients caught the MRSA infection at the hospital. | |
| The patients affected have been isolated, barrier nursing has been introduced and new patients are not being admitted to the ward. | |
| Marion Martin, infection control nurse at the hospital in Enniskillen, said patients were sometimes infected with MRSA before they were admitted. | Marion Martin, infection control nurse at the hospital in Enniskillen, said patients were sometimes infected with MRSA before they were admitted. |
| "But some (cases) are new in the last four to five days and that's why we've put the precautions in place" she said. | "But some (cases) are new in the last four to five days and that's why we've put the precautions in place" she said. |