Forty-eight patients were yesterday transferred from St. Luke’s Hospital to Mater Dei on the second day of in-patient migration.
The bottom table shows the wards that migrated to Mater Dei yesterday.
Patients that were transferred from M7 ward at St Luke’s were admitted to Mater Dei Medical wards 5 and 6. These patients were transferred to six different wards at Mater Dei: Cardiac Medical Ward, Medical Ward 3, Medical Ward 4, Medical Ward 5, Medical ward 6 and Urology 1.
Dr Oscar Aquilina carried out the first pace-maker intervention at the Mater Dei Cath Lab.
Dr Anthony Samuel, Chairman (Medical Imaging) has today issued the first report on a nuclear medicine scan done yesterday using voice recognition system. The reporting system worked excellently and the report was accessed by the Orthopaedic Outpatient Clinic through the highly sophisticated IT system available at Mater Dei which allows for the digital transmission of high resolution images. This was possible after the Patient Archiving Communication System went live a few weeks ago. This system never existed at St Luke’s.
The ITU at Mater Dei received its first 2 patients. Both patients were recovered at Mater Dei and required admission to the Intensive Care Unit after a cardiac arrest and heart failure respectively. The ITU at St. Luke’s Hospital will remain active until the last in-patient leaves St Luke’s Hospital.
There were 25 medical procedures and operations carried out in the Mater Dei theatres.
There were three discharges from one medical ward at Mater Dei.
Concurrently to the migration to Mater Dei, the management of Zammit Clapp Hospital has continued taking over intermediate care and rehabilitation cases from the St. Luke’s management. On the first two days of migration, 84 cases where handed over to the Zammit Clapp management.
The delays experienced on Monday in the Mater Dei Orthopaedic Outpatient clinic were not reported yesterday. The action taken yesterday to address this teething problem left positive results as this clinic has today functioned smoothly.