Pensioner Struck Down By Mrsa

Link: Pensioner Struck Down By Mrsa (from Swindon Advertiser).

THE family of a pensioner with MRSA have been left in the dark about where she contracted the infection.

Seventy-eight-year-old Audrey Vant was transferred to the Great Western Hospital in Swindon from the Nevill Hall Hospital in south Wales after suffering a fall while on holiday.

But neither hospital has shed any light on how Mrs Vant caught the superbug.

Doctors at the GWH diagnosed Mrs Vant with MRSA on Monday – four days after she was admitted.

But Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust, which runs the GWH, has denied responsibility, stating that clinical tests show the grandmother had the infection prior to her arrival.

There is also the possibility that Mrs Vant contracted MRSA in the Nevill Hall hospital in Abergavenny, or on the ambulance journey to Swindon.
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But Mrs Vant’s daughter Yvonne Jepson has questioned why her mum was left in a ward for four days with MRSA before being isolated.