I HAVE just read another article about Princess Alexandra’s cleanliness and I would like to add my opinion on this.
My mother was admitted to the hospital in September last year suffering from severe dehydration.
It was touch and go from the beginning, but in the following weeks she was there she had the strength to pull through.
She was on the fifth week there and the doctor said she would be well enough maybe to leave soon.
The following week she caught MRSA and septicemia and became a barrier patient in a single room.
When we visited a nurse told us we had to wear disposable gowns and gloves, but the next day another nurse said we did not.
The family didn’t know what to do, so we carried on putting the gowns and gloves on.
Then mum was moved to the intensive care unit and while she was in there, the cleaners were dusting and cleaning right above her head, we stopped them from doing this when we were there.
Also there was a male nurse who was with another patient and when the buzzer went off on the machine in my mum’s room, he came and turned the buzzer off and walked out of the barrier room.
He left the door wide open and went back to his patient, not once cleaning his hands, and this happened a few times.
There was also another resident who said the staff in there were cleaning toilet bedpans in a room that was next to their father’s bed with the door open.
So no wonder these germs are spreading.
My mum died there seven weeks after she went in.
She was a very special person to us and I have no trust or faith in that hospital anymore.
The Rogers family, Appleton Road, Loughton.
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