Clostridium difficile deaths in the UK
The complacency about clostridium difficile (c. difficile) and MRSA is nothing short of scandalous. Last year, c. difficile claimed 6,480 lives, while MRSA took lives 1,652.
The reason for this shocking death toll is well understood by everyone; dirty hospitals and the fly-by-night contractors who are supposed to clean them. Every month last year, some 677 people died because of this misguided idea that hospital cleaning could be contracted out.
It is time to end this epidemic. Ward cleaning should be reintegrated back into the mainstream management of hospitals. There should also be a nationwide campaign of re-establishing hygiene standards within the NHS. This will require extensive ward closures but it needs to be done if we are to stop the escalating death toll from these two bugs.
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