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  • Great Britain: Cleaning boss hit by MRSA (Hospital infects it's own during surgery)

    01/01/2006 7:05:17 PM PST · by Stoat · 30 replies · 1,931+ views
    The Sun (U.K.) ^ | January 2, 2006 | ANDY RUSSELL
      EXCLUSIVE Cleaning boss hit by MRSA Crippled for life ... devastated ex-boss NormanPicture: PETER LOMAS     By ANDY RUSSELL A FORMER NHS cleaning supervisor has lost a leg — after catching the deadly MRSA superbug in his own hospital. Dad-of-two Norman Turner, 42, contracted the disease while recovering from a routine operation to replace an artery. Last night he slammed doctors, nurses and cleaning staff at Blackburn Royal Infirmary, Lancashire, for “appalling” standards of hygiene. Norman, who worked for 15 years at the hospital — where he helped to train staff to combat MRSA — said: “I was...