Chemist aids undercover work

Link: Northampton Today

A CHEMIST in Northampton has been drafted in to undercover investigations to expose the extent of the potentially lethal super bug MRSA in the nation's hospitals. The blight of MRSA on the National Health Service has become a recurring headache for the Government, despite ministers repeatedly pledging to tackle the problem and clean up the country's hospital wards. Chris Malyszewicz has been employed in a series of investigations carried out by tabloid newspapers and documentary film makers to find out how widespread MRSA is. He has been involved in testing swabs taken from not only hospitals and ambulances, but also from cabs, banks and the London Underground to see how prevalent MRSA is. He said: "We know that we have got it (MRSA) badly in this country, but we don't want to admit it. We have got to realise how dangerous it is and how easily it can be spread."