Oct 24 2007
C.Difficile Deaths rise by 64% in one year
Scotsman newspaper reports that deaths from Clostridium difficile have risen by 64% in a single year in Scotland. Some of this may relate to changes in the requirement to report statistics, but it is also a damning inditement of the service and culture of the nationalised health system in the UK and the breakdown on standard issues of hygeine and cleanliness.
As a previous post reported, drug resistant bacteria are increasingly a feature of non-healthcare situations, but there is no doubt that we are not winning the battle, let alone the way against drug resistant germs.
