Link: The Bristol
The Bristol widow of a man struck down with the superbug MRSA at Frenchay Hospital while being treated for cancer has called for more action to be taken against the infection. The call comes the day after the Department of Health released figures showing that Bristol hospitals were failing to beat the superbug. Gill Maw’s husband, Ted, was in Frenchay with what would be diagnosed as metastatic pancreatic cancer when he caught the infection.
When the cancer was discovered, the MRSA infection had already spread and Mr Maw died only days later, aged 75.
Shortly after her husband’s death, Mrs Maw, aged 68, had routine surgery on her foot at Southmead Hospital. Doctors also discovered she was suffering with MRSA – although it was not clear where she had caught it from – and she needed three further operations to clear the infection.
