'An Abattoir Has a Higher Hygiene Ethos

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   VICTIMS of the MRSA superbug have carried out a cleaning blitz on hospitals.

Armed with mops, buckets and dusters, they marched into 10 of the country's worst hit buildings...to show how dirty they really are.

The cleaning corps - former victims of the flesh-eating bug and relatives of patients who have died - were shocked at the levels of filth they found before being thrown out by security staff.

BBC3 reporter Tim Samuels, who organised the mass clean-up for a shock documentary, said: "Mops were covered in filth after just a few minutes."

The teams also visited a slaughterhouse to compare its hygiene standards with hospitals.

After seeing the shock footage, germ expert Professor Hugh Pennington said the abattoir had "a higher ethos of hygiene than the average NHS hospital".

He added: "Anyone could go rolling around in dog muck and then walk into any hospital they like.

"In an abattoir everything is sterilised, nobody can enter without a health certificate from their doctor and, of course, would have to wear protective clothing.

"The majority of the 5,000 deaths from MRSA each year could be prevented if the NHS adopted a more robust approach to cleaning."