The Ottawa Hospital is asking patients to limit visitors, after outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant "superbug" bacteria at its Civic and General campuses. The outbreaks are being blamed on overcrowding.
On Thursday afternoon the hospital asked patients to limit themselves to one visitor during the designated hours (3 - 8 pm.). The health authority said it would review the protocol on Dec. 20.
Both campuses of the hospital are fighting outbreaks of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, or VRE, while the Civic campus's intensive-care unit has six patients who've been isolated with Clostridium difficile, which causes severe vomiting and diarhea.
An outbreak of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has also hit a section of the Civic campus.
So, da haben die Krankenhaus-Viren Kanada auch erreicht ..... mein Cousin ist im Sommer hier in Deutschland nach einer Operation daran gestorben, weil kein Antibiotikum dagegen gewirkt hat ....
... und Maxim, ich würde gerne auch etwas positives lesen ....
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17.12.2010 11:26
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