64% of EKHUFT staff isolate through Covid-19 pandemic
Updated 11:20 19/12/20
East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust (The Trust) has 8,602 employees. Due to the flexible working practices encouraged by the Trust this amounts to a total of 7,745.69 whole time equivalent posts. The Trust serves 720,500 people who live across East Kent.
As the first wave of Covid-19 swept through the communities of East Kent, Trust staff who had to self isolate due to potential covid-19 symptoms in Mar was 12%. In April this peaked at 17%, and dropped to 9% in May and 7% in June. It fell again in July to 5% and in August to 3%. It increased to 3.3% in September, and fell to 1% at the beginning of the second wave in Oct. It rose again in Nov to 3%, before falling back slightly in Dec to 2%.
Of the 8,602 Trust employees, 64% have had to self isolate due to Covid-19 symptoms between March 2020 and Dec 15th 2020.
During the first wave of Covid-19 two EKHUFT nurses lost their lives, as well as taking 350 plus residents from across our communities in the first wave to hit East Kent.
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Aimee O,Rourke 39 and mother to three girls, worked in the Margate Hospital. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, in the acute medical unit at the hospital. She passed away in early April.
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Adekunle Enitan, 55, and father two children, worked in the intensive care nurse at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford. He lost his battle to COVID-19 in the intensive care department he dedicated himself to on Friday, April 24.
Between March and May 2020, our communities in East Kent, like the rest of the country got stressed due to the arrival of Covid-19 and lockdown. In June July Aug when we were allowed to meet again, following the guidelines, we de-stressed. By early Oct due to the numbers of infections rising, and murmurings of a second lockdown, our communities began to get more stressed again.
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