Hospital infections is greater than the number of road deaths in Britain each year. " You are more likely to die from a disease picked up in a NHS hospital than to be killed on Britain's roads. Rates of the MRSA superbug have doubled since 1997".
Lethal Hospital Bug cases Rocket: The number of cases of potentially lethal hospital infection has rocketed since the 1990s, figures show: The department of Health has revealed there were 44,488 cases of C. difficile in over 65s in England last year. It was the first time mandatory surveillance of the diarrhoea-causing infection as been undertaken.
What the three main parties say:
- Labour has set a target of cutting MRSA infection rates by half in the next three years
- The conservatives are focusing on hospital cleanliness as one of their top five election priorities, and say they will give matrons new powers to close infected hospital wards and operating theatres
- The Liberal Democrats say the initial rise in MRSA is hospitals contract out their cleaning, causing a fall in standards
USA: Going to a restaurant is voluntary. Going to the hospital is
not. And inadequate hygiene in hospitals is far deadlier than in
restaurants. The Centers for Disease control and prevention estimates
that 2,500 people die each year after picking up food-borne illness in
a restaurant or prepared food store. Forty times that number- 100,000
people die each year in the USA alone, according to the CDC, from
infections contracted in health care facilities
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