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Admin · Posted July 3rd, 2009, 08:32 AM

Hey! A new way for hospitals to save a little money... Let the patients clean up after themselves! Seriously though... I'm wondering if the place was really filthy or is the lady just OCD.

Original story is here.

Patient cleaned 'filthy' ward while attached to a drip

Tereza Tosbell, 48, who works as a cleaner, became angry as she watched hygiene staff at work and claims their brief visit left the room as dirty as they found it.

So she tracked down cleaning materials and attacked the sink, radiator and curtain rail she said had not been wiped by the official cleaners in Colchester General Hospital.

"It is shameful that the cleaners just wiped the basin with a paper towel and totally ignored the taps which are the most important part." she said.

"The radiator was filthy, there were cobwebs on the curtain rail round my bed and you could write your name in the dust on the windowsill," said Miss Tosbell.

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Charleene · Posted July 3rd, 2009, 12:35 PM

I took Trent to the hospital last year, and the bed that they had him in in the ER had dried up blood on the hand rail and some kind of milky liquid on the floor near the bed, so I can understand where this chick is coming from, but I think she might have been going overboard by doing it herself lol understandably, the place doesnt get dusted everyday, and if there was cobwebs up in the curtain rails then that sucks but not everyone can reach up there, the dust on the windowsill shouldnt be there, and yes the taps should have been sanitized, but seeing as patients arent touching the curtain rails and windowsill they probably dont even think to clean them (they SHOULD be doing it though), but the taps are unacceptable in my opinion.

The hospitals do need to kick it up a notch when it comes to sanitation and keeping sicknesses contained. "Cleanliness is next to godliness" I dont exactly agree with that, but the hospitals should be using that as inspiration if you get what I mean lol

Zoe · Posted July 3rd, 2009, 03:16 PM

So, she was okay with being surrounded by all the sickest people in the city, but a little dust bothered the hell out of her... okay.

TamaMum · Posted July 7th, 2009, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by Zoe

So, she was okay with being surrounded by all the sickest people in the city, but a little dust bothered the hell out of her... okay.

Most wards in the UK keep patients with highly infectious diseases isolated or separated from the general wards where folks are waiting to undergo surgery for minor ailments, etc.

I don't think it was her fellow patients that worried her at all.

I'm not sure how significant the situation might be in North America - but in the UK we have a real problem in almost all our hospitals with "Hospital Acquired Infections" - particularly MRSA and C.difficile - which are resistant to most forms of treatment (probably thanks to our overuse of anti-biotics).

I think she was over reacting a little about the curtains and radiators - but it is clearly bad hygiene not to clean the taps on a sink that is used by everyone in the hospital ward.

To be honest, it is getting to the stage where people due to be admitted to hospital are more concerned about hospital acquired infections than some "trifling" op on their knee! :p

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Zoe Senior Member Posts: 2,583 Blog Entries: 5 Thanked 434 Times LOLed 403 Times	#3 Posted July 3rd, 2009, 03:16 PM So, she was okay with being surrounded by all the sickest people in the city, but a little dust bothered the hell out of her... okay.