Link: MRSA victim loses leg.
A FORMER hospital cleaning supervisor who had to have his leg amputated after catching MRSA today slammed East Lancashire’s dirty hospitals.
Norman Turner, left, from Darwen, spoke out just days after a damning report by patient watchdogs found that cleanliness guidelines were still being breached at the area’s three main hospitals.
Doctors at Blackburn’s Royal Infirmary saved his life by amputating his left leg at the hip following complications after he was admitted for a routine operation.
The father-of-two said that he routinely saw doctors, nurses and infection control staff fail to follow rules to combat the spread of the deadly infection during his stay in the Infirmary and Queen’s Park Hospital.
He said that despite 15 years of service at Blackburn Royal Infirmary, he felt he was treated "appallingly" and added: "I was perfectly healthy and strong when I went into hospital and expected to make a full recovery from the operation.
"Instead I have been left disabled for the rest of my life.
He has now been discharged, despite still having MRSA, into White Ash Brook nursing home, Thwaites Road, Oswaldtwistle.
