UW Hospital stops student volunteers over H1N1
MADISON — The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood student volunteer program at UW Hospital and Clinics has been suspended because of the high number of students with swine flu symptoms.
Infection control director Dr. Nasia Safdar said the hospital system decided to proactively stop allowing student volunteers in the interest of protecting the patients from the H1N1 virus.
The policy also limits who can visit patients.
In the American Family Children's Hospital, only patients or legal guardians are allowed to visit. Similar restrictions now apply at UW Hospital.
Safdar says that with the vaccine coming at the end of October, they may revisit the regulations, but the suspension of student volunteers could last through the flu season.
Sep 13, 2009 at 1:22 p.m.
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best4kids, Mercy is not a university hospital. The concern is that the college campus environment is ripe for spreading the virus.
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SarahB1, I don't think that counts as being a volunteer.
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Pork is safe to eat. It is not a route for transmission of the virus, troll.
Sep 13, 2009 at 6:41 a.m.
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That's it. I'm never eating pork again! Except bacon. And on pork chop Wednesdays. Mmmm.... fried pork rinds covered in chocolate...
Sep 12, 2009 at 11:46 p.m.
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I am glad to see they are taking a proactive approach. How about at Mercy?
Sep 12, 2009 at 10:22 p.m.
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Smart move on the volunteers. Clinical? Well I guess both volunteers and clinical must be vaccinated and without flu symptoms for the last month and then wait the incubation period out. Say two weeks or whatever the exposure to the virus and the symptom phase taking place.
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