Cover-Ups, Lies and the Cynical Conspiracy That Let a Superbug Claim 90 Lives
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MOST of the wards at Maidstone Hospital were dreadful, but there was one in particular that patients feared the most. No one wanted to end up on Whatman. It was here that the Clostridium difficile patients were all heaped together to try to keep them away from other patients, in an attempt to prevent the virulent superbug spreading.
Something which should have been simple to do, one might think. Not simple enough, however.See the full content of this document
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Cover-Ups, Lies and the Cynical Conspiracy That Let a Superbug Claim 90 Lives
For four months, patients who did not have C. difficile continued to be placed in Whatman ward, surrounded on all sides by those who did. What hope did they have? Some, inevitably, contracted the bug.
A total of 1,176 people contracted C. difficile over two-and-a- half years, between April 2004 and September 2006, at the three hospitals in Kent run by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. They are now at the centre of the worst superbug scandal in British history.A report by the Healthcare Commission has revealed that of 345 patients who died after being infected with C. diff...See the full content of this document
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