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Michael Howard: My mother-in-law was killed by this. We need action, not words
Hospital infections, like MRSA, are the new British disease. They kill at least 5,000 people a year, more than die on our roads. But it is more than just a statistic. It is 5,000 needless personal tragedies, as I know only too well. Two years ago my mother-in-law died from a hospital-acquired infection. She was old and frail. But she still enjoyed her life, and her family loved her. She need not have died. Labour’s response to the national scandal of the superbug has been just talk. We have had 21 initiatives in the past four years. Today, the Government will launch the 22nd. But all these initiatives have been designed just to catch headlines, not stop people catching the superbug. The rate of infection has doubled since they came to power.
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Proper treatment should mean that you are cleared of MRSA. The danger is re-infection. What is about the work enviroment that makes you vulnerable to MRSA there
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I am looking for any information. I contracted MRSA at work. I was put in the hospital. I am home now and scared to return to work because I am now colonized with MRSA and I can transmit it. No one seems to take this serious but I do. I will have it the rest of my life so it has changed my life. I do not want to transmit it to anyone and I work with a elderly populations of people who are already sick.
I do not understand why my doctor has released me to return to work. My employment could be hazardous to someone else’s health.
Please help me understand what I have.
Thank You,
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I have written to Mr. Howard in response to this article, expressing sympathy that he finds himself in the same plight as the majority of those posting onto this site – that of having a family member struck down by MRSA – and suggesting that he, unlike us, is in a position to actually do something about it. I have asked him to confirm that the NHS will be better served by the Conservatives than Labour.