Link: The Sun.
Mr Howard whose mother-in-law died from MRSA, vowed to put powerful new matrons back on the wards to enforce strict hygiene standards.
He said: “They will be able to shut down dirty wards immediately. More people die from the MRSA superbug than are killed on Britain’s roads.
“Hospital infections cost the NHS £1billion a year — enough to pay for 47,000 nurses, 14,000 doctors or over 220,000 hip replacements.
“But even though MRSA is on the increase, Health Secretary John Reid says he will only reduce the number of victims by half after four years.
“So Mr Blair is prepared to sit idly by while thousand more die from hospital superbugs. Nothing speaks as loud of Labour’s failure to improve our NHS. Nothing is as deafening as Mr Blair’s silence on his culpability for the superbug crisis.”
