Eye patients fear MRSA spread

Link: Express & Star

    I wish to add my voice to those of councillors John Reynolds and Barry Findlay, the thousands of people who have signed the petition to keep the Eye Infirmary open, the League of Friends at the Eye Infirmary and all other well-wishers. I have had two cataract operations at the infirmary and always received splendid service. So many of the patients are elderly like myself, and I think it is a great achievement to be able to improve the sight of old people. My case against moving these services to New Cross is a life saving one and concerns the activities of David Loughton the chief of the New Cross Trust. New Cross has a very bad record of infections in the hospital including MRSA. For anyone with an eye infection to be on the New Cross site could be a death sentence, since eye infections could prove lethal.