In letters home, she described the appalling conditions, with soldiers writhing in agony in the wards.
Employees supported themselves as best they could, using the wards as pigsties and chicken coops.
Leo, our Dutch friend, went out to the woods to cut down little Christmas trees for the wards.
The wards at the jail, which houses roughly 12, 500 inmates, typically have 20 cells and only one guard.
The concerns arose over the inability to recruit sufficient numbers of doctors to staff some of the wards.
Managers at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust are hoping to re-open the wards in the next few days.
The wards were brought to the site in sections and lifted into place.
The wards currently closed to visitors are 101, 102, 103, 201, 202, 207.
He claims some patients on the wards have been treated "appallingly" and "there is a real lack of care".
Broomhill, a student-heavy area of the city, was one of the wards that changed from Lib Dem to Labour control.
Taken ill in a restaurant, she was rushed to the nearest hospital, the Calixto Garcia, where all the wards were full.
It was still early morning, breakfast trays collected in the wards, meds distributed, plans in place for the rest of the day.
These patients are often waiting for others on the wards to be released after treatment or discharged by busy doctors or nurses.
Ms Slinger admitted the wards were not the "long-term solution" but said they were "a pragmatic way of dealing with the problem quickly".
She worked in the dining room, fed pigs, helped on the wards, and ran a tiny broadcast booth that played music and announcements.
The metal gates that bar entry to the wards in the Cecilia Makiwane hospital are there to stop criminals stealing blankets and medicine.
"Patients are free to leave the wards at their will and we have protocols for facilitating patients' movements to and from the wards, " he said.
This is welcome, as it the fact that senior charge nurses on the wards are being freed up to oversee their teams and provide effective clinical leadership.
Relatives and friends of patients are being advised not to visit the wards at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in an effort to stop the outbreak spreading.
Some, but not all of the Labour councillors in the wards affected by the Shepherds' proposed development were also strongly supportive of the Shepherds for similar reasons.
But nurses will not be able to provide the standards of care we all want to see when they are so overstretched and the wards so short-staffed.
Patients at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor are being advised to keep the number of visitors to a minimum as they could pick up the bug on the wards.
The wards were also not appropriate for people with dementia.
As well as fulfilling her role on the wards of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, she is part of a six-strong team that see children when abuse is suspected.
Money has been made available to pay for extra critical care beds, and the NHS is trying to entice former nurses, and those recently retired, back into the wards.
The wards reopened on Christmas Eve but now a new outbreak has led to a visiting ban being imposed on wards 21, 34, 35, and 37 until at least Monday.
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The government has set targets to improve the number of nurses on the wards and aims to train more, persuade more to return to the job and attract more from overseas.
Eileen Steinbock, from the British Dietetic Association's Food Counts group, which has looked at improving nutrition in hospitals, says what matters most is communication between caterers, dieticians and staff on the wards.
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