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Wash hands plea as bug shuts wards



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Published Date: 05 January 2008
PEOPLE visiting hospitals across the country are being told to wash their hands with soap and water to halt a sickness and diarrhoea outbreak which has already closed around 100 wards in the UK to new patients.
NHS bosses said at least 98 wards in 44 UK hospitals have stopped admitting new patients and urged anyone who has been ill not to visit friends or relatives until they have been free from symptoms for at least two days.

The use of alcohol gels to kill other germs has been promoted in hospitals but health bosses have warned that it will not kill the norovirus.

One ward at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary has been closed.

The virus has cost UK business more than £80 million because of staff illness and the number of people calling in sick has increased by nearly 40 per cent, according to research by Active Health Partners.

Lisa Dunn, a hospital director at the Heart of England NHS Trust in Birmingham, said: "The gel helps with things like MRSA – norovirus needs soap and water.

"People want to use the gel and we are having to explain to them that they need to physically wash their hands, not just use the gel."



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  • Last Updated: 05 January 2008 10:21 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Rv3!,

Edinburgh 05/01/2008 14:44:52
I was recently at a function organised for staff from the ERI. The clients were in the main, hospital staff.

You can't help but notice.... the few times I took a trip to the bathroom during the evening I saw many of the staff simply "put it away" and leave.

Excuse me? Hospital staff who shake and leave?
That should be a sacking offence. I was totally disgusted with their lack of cleanliness.
2

Abel Magwitch,

05/01/2008 16:11:11
In Dickens's time, if you had to go into hospital you put your affairs in order first. Plus ca change ...
3

Sqidward,

05/01/2008 19:33:39
I'm afraid If I were to visit a toilet and find some guy loitering about in the background each time I went, I would probabley '"put it away" and leave' too.
4

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05/01/2008 21:36:47
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COLINTON.MAINS,

Oakville Ontario 06/01/2008 02:32:12
doctors.are.some.off.the.wost.for.not.washing.hands
6

Bend Over,

06/01/2008 02:46:57
"Wash hands plea"

Florence Nightingale would never have thought of such a revolutionary idea.
7

Graeme Gibson,

Sydney Australia. 06/01/2008 08:42:57
Always wash the hands. The number of people, guys, I see going into toilets who dont wash their hands before they leave, despite soap everywhere, is amazing. Same with employees of restaurants. I sometimes watch them to see if they wash their hands. Not many. A pee and a smoke and no washed hands and back to the kitchen. Its so creepy.
8

Graeme Gibson,

Sydney Australia 06/01/2008 08:44:02
You girls have to pull your boyfriends and husbands up over this.
9

Rv3!,

Edinburgh 06/01/2008 13:21:27
I saw expecting such a response as #3. Don't worry though, I think we all know where we stand on this.
10

Crickit,

Georgia, usa 07/01/2008 16:21:42
Why can't they do what we do even in Grocery stores. Before you go into the store they have sanitizing wipes to use on the grogery carts. You clean your hands and then wipe the handle and seat on the cart where children are seated.

Your hospitals could do the same thing. I always carry individual wipes in my purse and I never worry. It is a cheap answer to your problem.

Also in our restaurants there are signs on the mirrors for employees to wash their hands before returning to work. I have never seen anyone disregard this notice. If I did, I would stop them before they left and politely point to the sign.

 

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