Kateri Hospital In-Patient Closed Again to Visitors
Written by Paul Graif on 12 November 2021
The Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC) has completely closed Inpatient Care Services (ICS) to visitors for the second time in 10 days. The new closure went into effect yesterday (Thursday) for the first and second floors. In a news release the KMHC stated: “This sudden closure to visitors comes secondary to the COVID-19 outbreak reported earlier.”
There are five active cases of COVID-19 in Kahnawake as of Friday morning according to the public health team.
One of those who is afflicted is Lynn Beauvais. She has been battling COVID-19 for the last week. She is double-vaccinated.
“I knew there was a chance,” Beauvais said. “I was surprised, not that I caught it, I’m surprised that it’s, I can’t say that it’s bad, but that the symptoms are difficult.”
She says her breathing is difficult at times. At 66 years old Beauvais is concerned because she lives with heart disease, an underlying health issue that makes her more vulnerable. She says she’s just glad that she is vaccinated.
“I hate to say I would have been hospitalized at least, and I would have been on a ventilator, I know. I don’t even want to say what else. But I would have had a hard time. Thank God I did it (Get vaccinated),” she said.
Beauvais says she is most comfortable sleeping mostly upright in a chair, which helps keep her lungs clear. She also has been doing specific breathing exercises that she found on the John’s Hopkins medical site on-line.
“People, take care of yourselves because the double-vaxxed doesn’t stop you from getting it, it stops you from being hospitalized. So I could just imagine what would have happened.”
