How clean is your hospital? Quite clean but not spotless according to last night’s ‘When Kim and Aggie went to hospital …’ on channel 4. The show followed Kim Woodburn and Aggie Mackenzie, the nation’s favourite … erm … scrubbers … as they tried to assess the cleaniness of Ealing hospital over a three month period.
They didn’t find any of the dreaded MRSA but they did find a few poo encrusted toilet brushes, Medical Waste bags that had been left lying around for hours and a doctors’ lounge that was pretty filthy.
To be fair though, it isn’t just an issue of keeping the hospital clean. Microbiologists believe that by simply using an antimicrobial alcohol hand gel when people enter and leave a ward could cut infection rates by 50 per cent at a stroke. And the show revealed that people weren’t doing this nearly enough!
I used to live in Ealing and once had occasion to visit the hospital. Let’s just say I’d have to be bleeding-my-life’s-blood-desperate to have to go in there again!!!!
What’s worrying is that Ealing is now supposed to be one of the cleaner hospital.