How Clean Is Our Hospitals?? MRSA (methicillin-resistabt staphylococcus cureus) is a superbug most resistant to most but not all antibiotics and is very common in hospitals.MRSA infections mainly occurs in people already ill and is difficult to treat b'cause of its resistance to antibiotics.
MRSA can also be found in healthy people as 3-10 people are carriers(UK),though not harmful to healthy people.The bug is normally found on the skin and in nose and can be harmful if it invades the skin it then can cause an infection.This is likely if you have a graze or a cut wich can allow bacteria to get under the skin and cause infection such as boils,pimples,skin absesses and wound infections etc.In some patients it can get into blood stream and travel to internal organs where it the can cause serious harm such as blood poisoning,lung infections(pneumonia),bone/ heart infections etc.It is serious and causes fatal deaths.
HOW IT IS SPREAD
MRSA is spread by various ways.Skin to skin contact,touching sheets,towels,clothes used by someone who has MRSA.It's strains will not normally cause infection if one is well but doctors,nurses or visitors may be CONTAMINATED and may pass it on to someone ill or has a wound/cut who than may develop an infection.Patients must always wear slippers/socks.Importantly everyone must use bacterial hand washes or gels.
PREVENTION
Hospital staff and visitors are motivated to adhere to good hygiene measures.The far most important one is washing hands before and after contact with a patient.These reduces the chances of passing on of the bug.Other measures are proper cleaning bedding and wards.Patients with MRSA may be kept away from other people until the bug is cleared.
TREATMENT
Usually treated is with antibiotics,however the choice of antibiotics is limited.So many are given antibiotics directly into the vein.Healthy people carrying MRSA do not need treatment but adviced to use anticeptic creams,shampoos,antibiotics. creams for the nose..
Now,being in this part of the world hearing about MRSA in everyday news somehow touched my heart and made me think of our own Namibian hospitals.
How clean is our hospitals and what standards are set to follow hospital hygiene?
Please share your sincere thoughts...knowledge or experience.
inny
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Re: How Clean Is Our Hospitals?? Did the service change so much Inny?
1 Mil were pretty good in terms of cleanliness, but okay, I spent most of my time in a vegetative state, ± 21 days to be exact, another 6 months in a wheel chair and then I were fit for duty.
I think that jump could be worse ... yet I'm alive and still full of sh*t as ever.
Hospitals are places where one can die in peace at least or
pangkas
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Re: How Clean Is Our Hospitals?? I MAY be mistaken, but, as far as I know, the hospital you, pangkas, are referring to is NOT in Namibia. I'd like to believe that we in Namibia do have hospitals other than your much-vaunted 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria.
Our own hospitals may not always be up to military standards, but, at least, they are our own!
Anyway, if the time before 1990 was the last time you have been admitted as a patient to a hospital, kindly thank you Creator.
And, no!, to answer the question by inny, the Namibian hopsitals are NOT always the best they could be.
Re: How Clean Is Our Hospitals?? Oneword,
Hospitals can be better if everyone put in some efford.A clean nation is a healthy nation.Awareness and educating the people of the importance of handwashing or cleanliness in hospitals can avoid other sorts of health threats.
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Re: How Clean Is Our Hospitals?? inny,
I could not agree more. You are absolutely right. What you say makes a lot of sense and there would most definitely be fewer casual ilnnesses if everyone kept to what you say .........
BUT ...... should this ever come true, a great many of the "unwashed" masses would have to swop their "wishbone"for a proper "backbone"
Respectfully Yours,
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Very wise words indeed Inny - spot on. You're absolutely right, and if the health care and medical staff, the public, as well as the cleaning companies would all do their part our hospitals would be what they should be as a matter of course: clean. As it is, many people could not be bothered, and the result speaks for itself.
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Re: Very wise words indeed Our hospitals clean??? Listen, man! The people already come to work ------ although they have better things to do! Do you still expect them to actually work!!! to earn their salary???
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Kitchens I hope our nation's kitchens are cleaner than our hospitals. Reember: a dirty kitchen will land you in hospital quicker than a dirty hospital will land you in hospital ;-)
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Re: How Clean Is Our Hospitals?? Chef,
I have been given to believe that when the Namibia Tourism Board started doing their reports on various hospitality establishments, they nearly fell on their backs a number of times!
So, don't be too sure about your statement!!
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True! Very true, Oneword - there continue to be some hospitality establishments that are dragging the name and good work of all the others into the gutter when it comes to cleanliness and hygiene. That's not only a problem ib our part of the world, but it means the authorities need to control better and more regularly, without giving establishments any notice of impending inspections whatsoever. I think they should just walk into an establishment, do a proper inspection and if it's not up to standard they should serve a warning letter there and then. They should then walk in again unannounced a few weeks or a month later and if it is still not up to standard the authorities should revoke the licence - at cost to the establishment, with the right for a review by an independent inspector of course. Voila! This inspection regime has worked in other countries, why not in ours?
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