The Gómez Ulla Central Defense Hospital in Madrid on Tuesday activated the action protocol to receive repatriated Spaniards from Wuhan as a result of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus epidemic. The 22nd floor of the hospital is the place designated by the Ministry of Health as the National Infectious Reference Unit.
However, sources from the center itself say that on the 22nd floor they have not yet been given a protocol for this particular disease; and the only thing that the emergency workers have received is a small cardboard box with "three pairs of gloves, three masks and three gowns" and a folio with seven points to follow before suspicious cases "with respiratory symptoms and / or fever traveled or had contact with people who have traveled to China. "
The toilets of the 22nd floor have signed by contract the express prohibition of communicating any matter related to their work and their daily activity, so some workers have assured this newspaper to feel tied hand and foot to denounce the precarious situation with which would face this coronavirus if the repatriated Spanish citizens arrived at the center, as recognized by the ministry that will occur when they arrive in Spain.
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The Community of Madrid, meanwhile, has designated as a reference center the Hospital Carlos III of Madrid, the same that attended the cases of Ebola 2014 on Spanish soil.
The Spaniards who were in Wuhan during the outbreak of coronavirus and who do not show symptoms will be repatriated to Spain, as of yet to be determined, and will have to remain isolated for two weeks, the maximum quarantine period, given that the current lack of knowledge about the pathways virus transmission does not allow to know if it can be spread from human to human even if the carrier has no symptoms.
The returnees will be, first, evaluated by the External Health services to confirm that they have no symptoms; Once confirmed, they will be transferred to the hospital for isolation.
As they are considered healthy patients, no sanitary restriction beyond isolation at the hospital floor will be necessary.
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