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Originally Posted by chav1
cant realy blame the hospitals completely on MRSA
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A lot of it is caused by sloppy/lazy/useless (pick your own description) health care professionals!! Not all of course as there are always exceptions.
We took our son to A&E the other day as he was suffering from bad stomach craps and we were worried about appendicitis. The triage nurse did not wash her hands before or after doing a glucose test on him, she did not wear gloves while doing the blood prick thing or while trying to squeeze the blood out of his finger for the test.
While I was on one of the wards a couple of months ago there were signs up telling the staff to wash hands before and after seeing each patient. This rarely happened.
The NHS keep telling us that visitors and out patients bring these bugs into the hospital. They have built a new hospital and in all the waiting areas for out patients they have put down carpet!! Why?? You can't mop carpet and you can be damn sure they wont clean it every day.
I agree that many of the problems are caused by visitors but if they saw the staff following the correct cleanliness procedures then maybe they would follow suit.
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Originally Posted by Cyfr
To be honest its supposed to be 3 visitors per bed at visiting times, .... I have seen huge groups of families/friends visiting, and by huge I sometimes mean 10-15+.
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That is common on the maternity wards and is usually Asian families. When we had Emily they had security stopping these large groups from entering the ward. If there are rules for visitors then they should be enforced, I witnessed them being enforced and it was nice to see.