7000 Die in Italian Hospitals Annually Due to Unhygenic Conditions

L'Espresso Magazine Italia ^ | January 9, 2007 | Ombudsman

[Ombudsman]

http://espresso.repubblica.it/

Title to the article: "Hospital Inferno."

SocioMed at its finest. 7,000 people die per year in Italian hospitals due to unhygenic conditions. That is two Medical 911's per year. Twice as many people die in Hospitals due to negligence in one year, than we have troops killed fighting terrorists in three years.

Watched film of this. The hospital they filmed, Umberto I in Rome, the city's largest public hospital didn't quite look like a Soviet era hospital, but I sure wouldn't want to go there.

Forza SociMed!

[2banana]

But it is nationalized health care - it is great and free and for the children...

[WakeUpAndVote]

I wonder how that compares with French hospitals?

[AdvisorB]

The numbers could be a lot worse if the Italians were having children.

My wife and I were in Bologna last year, and on the playgrounds all we saw were burkas, chadors, and little achmeds.

[mtbopfuyn]

Twice as many people die in Hospitals due to negligence in one year, than we have troops killed fighting terrorists in three years.

Huh? That is sooo past apples and oranges that they're comparing apples to gila monsters.

Yeah, so what's the number of people who die in American hospitals from medical personnel not washing their hands or picking up some super bug?

[taxed2death]

....or American hospitals?

[taxed2death]

12,000 die from staph infections in US hospitals

http://www.thedoctorslounge.net/infections/articles/nosocomial/staph_hospital/index.htm

[sgtbono2002]

HMMM Wonder how many die in American Hospitals for the same reason? Staph infections and run wild Virus's.

[3catsanadog]

I work in a hospital and we are reminded day in and day out to wash our hands when we enter a patient's room and when we are ready to leave that patient's room. We try as hard as we can to comply with this. Also wear gloves no matter what we are doing with patient.

I will admit when I need to get to a patient quickly (a fall, for instance), I forget to wash my hands when entering the room.

I have no issue regarding hand washing; it is the best way to combat infectious disease. However, I wonder how much of the hospital acquired diseases are caused by the patients' visitors. No one ever tells them to wash their hands and I would betcha they are hauling in nasty germs too. Yet it is the hospital that gets blamed.

[oceanview]

this is rampant in american hospitals also.

the bottom line is - if you can avoid the hospital, do so.