Pat's Note: I have watched this journalist's work for years for
reasons I'm not going into.
He is formidable for refusing to be bullied by editors and owners and
for forthright accurate re****ting.
Who is right in this case?
Both and neither. Hospitals should be clean, but you will not beat
superbugs with mops, all the time there is a resevoir of duisease in
the pig industry, the bugs will return.
The difference between Scotland and England is really just that Scot's
vets have more to hide, much more, and therefore warrent much closer
watching.
In fairness, for historical reasons there are more of them per head of
population, enveloping Scotland and their neighbours like the plagues
of sickness and cover-ups they carry with them.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Crossborder-39split39-on-superbugs.4218443.jp
Cross-border 'split' on superbugs
e 2008
By ROSS LYDALL
DES Browne, the Scottish Secretary, intervened yesterday in the
scandal over an outbreak of a fatal hospital bug.
He said that "best practice" from NHS hospitals in England – where
infections from Clostridium difficile and MRSA have fallen as a result
of "deep clean" programmes – may have been ignored north of the Border
because of anti-English sentiment.
His remarks followed the outbreak at the Vale of Leven Hospital in
West Dunbarton****re, where nine deaths since December have been
directly linked to C diff and nine others had it as a contributory
factor.
Mr Browne, appearing before the Scottish affairs committee at
Westminster, said: "We need to be very careful we don't get into the
situation where we are not doing things just because the English are
doing them, and denying ourselves access to the best practice."
He said that, following a "deep clean" programme – which has not been
implemented in Scotland – outbreaks of C diff had fallen by 23 per
cent.
Figures from the Health Protection Agency show the number of MRSA
cases fell by 18 per cent between July and September last year, while
C diff cases were down 21 per cent.
It is understood there is concern in Labour circles that the SNP
administration in Edinburgh ridiculed last year's demand from Gordon
Brown, the Prime Minister, for a cross-border NHS "deep clean".
Some experts believe that to be a pointless exercise, saying a
hospital can be cleaned from ward to ward one day, only for infections
to be spread by new patients the next.
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Regards
Pat Gardiner
Release the results of testing British pigs for MRSA and C.Diff now!
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