Link: The Sun Newspaper Online
TONY Blair was slammed last night for claiming Britain’s hospital superbug crisis is no worse than in Europe.
The PM failed to admit the UK’s record on killer MRSA is the POOREST in Europe.
He tried to calm fears after figures showed the problem has doubled in four years.
Mr Blair said the incidence of all infections in hospitals is on a par with European levels.
But figures show 44 per cent of all bloodstream bugs in UK hospital patients are MRSA.
Only Greece is as bad — also on 44 per cent — while it has been virtually beaten in Holland and Denmark, where the rate is just one per cent.
The PM said: “If you look at hospital-acquired infections figures, they are not that different from any other European country.”
