Link: Worthing and Southlands beating MRSA – Worthing Today.
THE battle against potentially fatal infections like MRSA and C.diff is being won, according to Worthing and Southlands Hospital medical director Mike Rymer.
The hospital trust has seen a 33 per cent reduction in the number of C.diff cases this year, compared with 2006 – an infection which causes chronic diarrhoea and can be fatal, particularly for elderly patients.West Sussex Primary Care Trust set Worthing and Southlands a target of a 20 per cent reduction in C.diff cases, which it has exceeded.
A target of 12 cases of MRSA for the year was also set but the hospitals trust has already had that number, so it will not meet that figure.
But Mr Rymer said: "Twelve is a pretty tough number to meet – one a month.
