Stop recording UMC Groningen will take some time

groningen - The partial recording stop new patients at the Groningen University Hospital UMCG, which for weeks has been ravaged by the VRE bacteria, it will still 'some time.' That might be a hospital spokesman Wednesday.

In more than forty people who were on different wards, the risky intestinal bacterium was detected. 'But there are the last days added no new cases, there is no outbreak. There are now nine people in the hospital, 'said the spokesman. According to him, there is no one got sick from the bacteria.

When the hospital is running at full power, depends on how quickly the last infected people home. They are now isolated.

The bacterium (vancomycin-resistant enterokok) is harmless to healthy people, but the VRE bacteria can cause infections in severely ill or debilitated people. Which can in the worst case, lead to death. Normally, the bacteria disappear from the body.