MRSA

[joe-90]

Finally somebody on the TV telling MRSA as it is. Can't remember the title but she was on the BBC talking this morning.

She said that 'deep cleaning' hospitals was a waste of time re MRSA. It doesn't live on window cills or bed frames it lives in 'people's nasal cavities'.

She said 25% of people have it all the time (general public) and up to 75% have it sometimes.

People take their own MRSA into hospital with them and then blame dirty hospitals.

She said that in one hospital tested 80% of the staff were carrying the bug.

So Gordon, clean the hospitals all you like but as soon as the staff and patients return - you've got your old MRSA problem back again.

One thing it does tell us though - Gordon is gearing up for a snap election - even if he does have to tell lies in the hope of winning it.

 

[billyo]

dont let people have more that one visitor per week if they are only in hospital for a week, ok bent rules for childern, also invent a nose spray that kills the bacteria in the body like a ice water, with most bugs hate the cold

 

[JohnD]

what makes you blame the visitors? the patients themselves have noses, so do the doctors, nurses, orderlies and cleaners. Most of them are reluctant to wash their hands often enough

 

[chilluk]

Or do what the private hospitals do - week before an op get the patient in for pre-op - test them then and give them solutions etc to clean in for that week - most Bupas round this way never had a single case.

 

[billyo]

sorry i ment spray everyony as many time a day as it takes, but most visitors dont need to be there, doc's ect do

 

[joe-90]

Or do what the private hospitals do - week before an op get the patient in for pre-op - test them then and give them solutions etc to clean in for that week - most Bupas round this way never had a single case.

BUPA don't do real operations.

 

[JohnD]

not true

 

[joe-90]

According the the GP on BBC News 24 it is.

 

[JohnD]

and according to me it isn't

 

[joe-90]

OK John.

 

[notb665]

and according to me it isn't

I agree. The NHS failed me and BUPA didn't.

 

[notb665]

One thing it does tell us though - Gordon is gearing up for a snap election - even if he does have to tell lies in the hope of winning it.

Who is telling lies?

 

[JohnD]

How can you tell when a politician is telling lies?

 

[JohnD]

His lips move.

 

[bernardgreen]

When his mouth is open and he is not eating his words from the day before