The Min­istry of Health says the East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty is man­ag­ing sev­er­al sus­pect­ed and prob­a­ble cas­es of vari­cel­la, com­mon­ly known as chick­en­pox, among health­care work­ers at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal Cam­pus.

In a pub­lic health ad­vi­so­ry is­sued to­day, the min­istry said the af­fect­ed health­care work­ers were iden­ti­fied across sev­er­al de­part­ments with­in the ER­HA.

The min­istry said of­fi­cials im­me­di­ate­ly im­ple­ment­ed in­fec­tion pre­ven­tion and con­trol mea­sures in line with es­tab­lished pub­lic health pro­to­cols. These in­clude iso­lat­ing symp­to­matic in­di­vid­u­als, con­tact trac­ing, en­hanced en­vi­ron­men­tal clean­ing, oc­cu­pa­tion­al health sur­veil­lance, and mon­i­tor­ing ex­posed per­sons.