The management at Mater Dei Hospital said today, that as from this week it is further enhancing strict compliance with infection prevention and control measures within the hospital environment.

In a statement it said that these enhanced measures are in response to the detection of a New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase, producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in four patients localised in one particular area. “None of the patients have clinical signs of infection.”

This bacterium is a multi-drug resistant organism which is sensitive to a narrow range of antibiotics, MDH said.

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