Dialysis nurses, patients concerned about sanitation

Workers from a cleaning company have refused to empty bins and clean the area where dialysis treatment takes place six days a week.

Nurses have been complaining to management that due to the poor sanitation patients continue to be at risk of contracting infections.

Up until Saturday the situation was not rectified. A nurse told Newsday, “There is no magic needed to clear up this mess.

All workers have to do is bear in mind that they are dealing with a special type of patient who needs an extremely clean environment when they are dialysing.” Nurses said that in the dialysis ward they use needles, syringes, tubes and other equipment and if the ward is not kept clean and sanitized patients could become infected. Workers from the cleaning company told Newsday they are refusing to clean the ward because they are not receiving their salaries on time. Calls yesterday to Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh’s cellular phone went unanswered.