There’s good news when it comes to a potentially dangerous bacterial infection outbreak at Belleville General Hospital.
Tuesday, QHC’s Board of Directors heard that an outbreak involving VRE (vancomycin-resistant enterococci) in Quinte 5 at the hospital has been stopped and there has been no infection since the spring.
Quinte 5 had been in an “outbreak” position since last December.
Quinte Health Care management invited infection control experts to inspect the hospital and provide advice.
They were impressed with QHC’s infection control measures however did make some recommendations for improvement which are being followed up on.
VRE are a type of bacteria present in people’s gastrointestinal tract and can cause illness when spread from person to person.
