Everyday, routine occurrences currently in any hospital.
Not at the hospital I was in for several days in October. No receptionist pretending to be a nurse. Given meds on time. Great treatment by nurses and staff. Machinery functioned normally. Great food, just an added bonus. :)
Everyday, routine occurrences currently in any hospital.
Not even every hospital in the UK.
‘DREADFUL, ABYSMAL, INEXCUSABLE’
Arthur Peacham, 68, had been retired for just two weeks when he was admitted to Stafford Hospital with back pain following a hernia operation.
After a week he was about to go home when staff told his wife, Gillian, that he had caught the C.difficile superbug.
After that, Mrs Peacham said, a series of ‘horrendous’ blunders helped lead to her husband’s death on March 19, 2006, including failing to give him food and leaving him on ‘filthy’ wards.
‘What happened to him was horrific,’ said Mrs Peacham, 69, seen right with a picture of her husband. ‘When they told me he had caught C. difficile they admitted they had known 11 other people on the ward were already infected but they had nowhere else to put him.
‘They told us it wasn’t contagious but my son checked on the internet and saw that it was highly contagious and could result in death.
‘My husband went downhill from there. He was having trouble keeping food down and they were supposed to give him a special drink but they didn’t feed him most of the time.
‘Either they would forget to get a prescription from the doctor or they were too short- staffed to care for him.
Mr Peacham, an agronomist who had two sons and four grandchildren, was eventually moved to New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton in early March.
His widow said: ‘There it was amazing. He was so clean and well looked after.
‘Unfortunately by then it was too late. The C.diff had ravaged his body.’
She added: ‘The care at Stafford Hospital was dreadful, abysmal, inexcusable.’
Correct. 80,000/year in the US from nosocomial infections.