Link: MRSA patient left in own blood – family – Yorkshire Evening Post.
AN ELDERLY patient contracted the MRSA bug and almost died after being left to lie in his own blood on a filthy hospital ward, his family claim.
Retired miner Jim McManus, 70, was admitted to Pinderfields in Wakefield for a routine leg operation in February but fell victim to the deadly bug as a result of the ‘disgraceful’ state of the ward, they say.
Mr McManus’s daughter, Monique Dawson, f
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rom Temple Newsam, Leeds, said she even brought her own disinfectant on to the ward to clean around his bed because she was so worried about hygiene standards.
She said she regularly visited her father to find him in tears because he had been left to lie in the blood weeping from an open sore on his leg.
The former Glasshoughton colliery worker was told he would be kept in hospital for three nights for a bypass operation on an artery in his leg.
Although the surgery went smoothly, he was kept in after his scars failed to heal properly and he was eventually told he had contracted MRSA.
His family are now considering legal action against Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust over the standard of care he was given.
