Originally published July 15 2004
Filthy hospitals breed superbugs, kill patients, says report
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
I've said it before: hospitals are one of the most dangerous places you can be. Now a report from the UK says as much with a damning study that reveals how filthy the places really are. Doctors and health care workers don't wash their hands, for one thing, and infection rates are soaring. In the UK alone, 5,000 patients are dying each year from superbug infections contracted in hospital settings.
It begs the question: if these are supposed to be places of healing, then where has modern medicine gone wrong?
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Killer superbugs are now out of control with 5,000 people a year dying from viruses picked up in hospitals says a damning report.
- Health chiefs have been slammed for allowing patients to be treated in filthy hospitals where the number of patients contracting infections is soaring.The numbers of blood infections from Staphylococcus aureus has gone up almost 8% from 17,933 in 2001-02 to 19,311 in 2003-04 - of these 40% were a strain of the deadly MRSA.
- No-one knows how many people have died from MRSA but the bug was mentioned in 800 death certificates in 2002.
- As well as the human toll, infections are costing the NHS ?1bn a year.
- Health Secretary John Reid has already announced that ridding hospitals of bugs and higher standards of hygiene must be the NHS's top priority.
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