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02/10/2009
North's Swine Flu Mum Flown To England
A woman from the North who is suffering from swine flu and who had recently given birth has been airlifted to a specialist unit in England.
The news comes just hours after the North's Department of Health said that a 'second wave' of swine flu infections might be underway across the Province.
The unnamed woman was a patient at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald. She gave birth to a healthy child at the hospital around ten days ago but now needs a procedure known as Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation.
This came after the woman's condition worsened, prompting the hospital to recommend the highly specialised procedure.
This involves taking over the function of the heart and lungs when they are severely damaged, adding oxygen to the blood outside the body.
The woman has been transferred to Leicester, which has the only national Ecmo unit for adults and provides these specialist services for patients across the UK.
However, it is believed the baby does not have the virus.
In other breaking news today, it has also emerged that once the swine flu vaccine becomes available later this month, special arrangements will be put in place to permit weekend clinics to administer the drug over two sessions to the higher risk group of pregnant women.
The Royal College of Midwives told BBC Radio Ulster this morning that the immune system of pregnant women is less effective than in others and they are to be accommodated with Saturday and Sunday clinics to receive the vaccine.
The news follows tragedy in the Irish Republic with another two people having died from swine flu.
The Health Service Executive in Dublin announced the news at a briefing yesterday evening.
The spokesman said one woman was from the west of the country and the other from the eastern region.
Both women are believed to have had underlying medical conditions. Their deaths bring the total number of swine flu fatalities in the State to four.
See: Swine Flu Claims Two Lives
See: Highest Levels Of Swine Flu Reached
(BMcC)
The news comes just hours after the North's Department of Health said that a 'second wave' of swine flu infections might be underway across the Province.
The unnamed woman was a patient at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald. She gave birth to a healthy child at the hospital around ten days ago but now needs a procedure known as Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation.
This came after the woman's condition worsened, prompting the hospital to recommend the highly specialised procedure.
This involves taking over the function of the heart and lungs when they are severely damaged, adding oxygen to the blood outside the body.
The woman has been transferred to Leicester, which has the only national Ecmo unit for adults and provides these specialist services for patients across the UK.
However, it is believed the baby does not have the virus.
In other breaking news today, it has also emerged that once the swine flu vaccine becomes available later this month, special arrangements will be put in place to permit weekend clinics to administer the drug over two sessions to the higher risk group of pregnant women.
The Royal College of Midwives told BBC Radio Ulster this morning that the immune system of pregnant women is less effective than in others and they are to be accommodated with Saturday and Sunday clinics to receive the vaccine.
The news follows tragedy in the Irish Republic with another two people having died from swine flu.
The Health Service Executive in Dublin announced the news at a briefing yesterday evening.
The spokesman said one woman was from the west of the country and the other from the eastern region.
Both women are believed to have had underlying medical conditions. Their deaths bring the total number of swine flu fatalities in the State to four.
See: Swine Flu Claims Two Lives
See: Highest Levels Of Swine Flu Reached
(BMcC)
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