[News] For those who don't like Hospitals

[epileric]

Here's something that was done in Canada that showed a lack of proper cleanliness in hospitals, probably due to cutbacks.

The health of hospitalized Canadians and their visitors is being seriously put at risk by hospitals that have cut corners in cleaning budgets to save money, a Marketplace investigation has revealed.

The program took hidden cameras inside 11 hospitals in Ontario and British Columbia. What they found in many of them were surprisingly inadequate cleaning regimens – in short, dirty hospitals that could make you sick.

In many hospitals, Marketplace staffers applied a harmless gel to places that many people would touch – hand rails, door handles, light switches, elevator buttons.

he gel glows when seen under an ultra-violet light. But most of the time – and this was true in every hospital where Marketplace carried out gel tests – the gel was still there more than 24 hours later, meaning the surfaces had not been cleaned at all.

The program talked to cleaners, supervisors, nurses, doctors, and hospital administrators to get a handle on what has become a major problem at Canadian health-care facilities – a shocking number of hospital-acquired infections.

Poor hospital cleaning revealed as major problem

Here's the show if anybody cares to watch it. I don't know if it's watchable outside of Canada though.

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2012/dirtyhospitals/

 

[Chaz1]

Canada probably still top of quality compared to many. So this is heavy to hear u headed same route as rest, we in NLD still have top notch hospitals…for now…

 

[tinathesingergirl]

That is so scary....Considering that so many of us are in and out of hospitals so much it really makes us wonder and think....

Tina

 

[LJ-Bain]

OH Canada....