Family shock at MRSA inaction

Link: The Citizen

The family of a man who contracted the MRSA superbug at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital have condemned the fact he was left in the ward for 24 hours with other patients. Retired bricklayer and widower Arthur Barnfield, 78, of Ebley, Stroud, was diagnosed with the deadly bug on Tuesday, but not isolated until yesterday afternoon, potentially putting others at risk. "Since then the other beds in that ward have all been filled but Arthur is still there - so presumably they are at risk of being infected by him," said Mr Barnfield's stepson John Merrett yesterday, just before he was eventually isolated."