Hospitals must do more to beat superbugs

Link: Hospitals must do more to beat superbugs: MLA - Health - Belfast Telegraph.

A Stormont health committee member last night urged hospitals to improve basic hygiene levels in a bid to wipe out MRSA on our wards. SDLP health spokeswoman Carmel Hanna said "not enough is being done" to properly tackle potentially lethal superbugs such as MRSA. She was speaking as the Erne Hospital in Enniskillen was last night monitoring levels of MRSA on one of its wards which had to be closed after the infection was detected. The elderly care ward was closed on Monday after it was discovered that ten of the patients were carrying the multi-drug resistant bug. Those infected with the organism were not ill with MRSA but were found to have it present and so were a risk to other patients. People being looked after in the 36-bed ward remained there last night while those carrying the infection were treated in isolation.