Link: icCheshireOnline
A MID Cheshire mum who lost her son to MRSA will appear in a BBC documentary exposing poor hygiene in hospitals tomorrow night.
Mavis Law, of Beckenham Grove, Winsford, was one of a 100-strong army of superbug victims to go under-cover to highlight ’shameful’ hygiene standards in hospitals across the UK.
The team posed as clean-ers to gain access to 10 of the worst-hit hospitals, wearing hired uniforms and brandishing mops and dusters.
Despite turning up unannounced, they were ignored by security staff as they witnessed shocking conditions. The team then took the problem into their own hands and started cleaning.
Mavis said: ‘Some of the things I saw were shocking and the hygiene was shameful. It was lax, dirty and we were amazed that we weren’t challenged by security staff. It was disgusting to see the conditions patients have to put up with.
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It seems that very little, if anything, has changed in the 2 years since my Mother died from MRSA. She was in the Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon. The conditions there were awful and I took her case to my own Member of Parliament for Southampton, also the MP for the Huntingdon area. I also made a formal complaint to the hospital authority, having already complained about the dreadful conditions while my Mother was still alive. It appears that unless there is a mass movement by the whole country nothing will be done to improve health matters. Sadly it takes a revolution to effect change, as our parliament are so far removed from everyday matters. So much can be achieved by simple commonsense hygiene, such as uniforms not being worn outside places of work; tea trolleys not being pushed from farcical ‘barrier nurse’ situations into other wards, and simple cleaning.