DEADLY Hospitals

[kweli]

It's hard to stomach but this isn't just scaremongering, it's real. The figures speak for themselves. I mean what the f*ck has gone wrong? LOOK AT THE FIGURES!! From 51 cases in 1993 - (potentially) 100,000 cases in 2007 - Depopulation or what?

"The Government says that there were 6,381 cases of MRSA in England last year, although some experts believe it could be nearer to 100,000. The latest figures from the Health Protection Agency and the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit show that 74 cases involved children, three-quarters of them babies of less than a year old. It is not known how many of them died.

Data from the National Office of Statistics shows that deaths from MRSA rose from 51 in 1993 to 1,629 in 2005" - from the following report

How doctors lie on death certificates to hide the true scale of the toll from hospital infections
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=505798&in_page_id=1770

[tinmenace]

Excellent thread! Thanks for sharing this. Yes, one has to wonder if this is in any way deliberate!

[hagbard_celine]

The cause of this epidemic is not so much the MRSA bug itself, but the unsanitory practices at hospitals that allow it to spread to badly. Dr Chris on This Morning said this too: In the late 80's hopitals started contracting out their ancillary services to private companies. I was a part of this disaster myself! Under these companies standards of service plumetted with all the experienced staff being replaced by casual workers. So nobody was in the job long enough to learn how to do it properly. The companies were only in it to make a fast buck and so they were undisciplined and uncaring. It seems hard to believe that my hospital tolerated this for ten years before finally sacking its contrator and reemploying the staff in the NHS!

Things are improving slowly, but the damage done could take decades to fix. Experience and expertise cannot be taught on a working course, it can only be gained through time and dedication.

The one good thing that has come out of this is that it has shattered the myth that doctors and nurses are the only people in hospitals that metter and that everyone else is just secondary. We're ALL part of the team

[telana]

My dad died from MRSA nearly ten years ago at harefield hospital but the death certificate said it was brhoncial phnumonia.

[hagbard_celine]

My dad died from MRSA nearly ten years ago at harefield hospital but the death certificate said it was brhoncial phnumonia.


Condolences.:(