CASES of Norovirus have closed part of an admissions ward at Grimsby's Diana Princess of Wales Hospital.
The bug has been confirmed in the short stay area of the acute medical unit, where patients are taken while they are waiting to be admitted to a main ward. The assessment area of AMU is functioning as normal and Norovirus has not been confirmed there. Patients are currently being taken elsewhere following assessment to wait for admission.
There are also visiting restrictions across the whole hospital and the short stay wards, where the virus has been confirmed, are completely closed off to stop the spread of the disease.
Children are discouraged from attending the hospital and only two visitors per patient are allowed.
Ward C5 and two bays on ward B4 are also closed, although Norovirus has not been confirmed on those, but patients are suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting and visiting is restricted.
If people have had diarrhoea and vomiting they are urged to not visit the hospital until they have been symptom-free for 48 hours.
People are urged to contact the ward they want to visit before turning up at the hospital.