A care home was forced to place a vulnerable elderly patient with dementia into isolation after the withdrawal of potentially unsafe coronavirus testing kits.
Staff at a home in Nottinghamshire had choice but to place the newly-arrived patient into “barriered nursing”, meaning complete isolation, for 14 days, after being ordered to halt using a testing system earlier this week.
A director of the home in Nottinghamshire described to the Mirror the stress the decision has caused for the patient and staff members, who now have no way of knowing if residents are carrying the virus.
Mary McGowan, director of Nottingham Care Village, in Lambley, Nottinghamshire, said that staff have been left “working blind” since the decision, with no