Letter: Hygiene and Telford hospital
Wednesday 18th August 2010, 7:00AM BST.
Letter: During the last few weeks, I was visiting a very elderly friend in Telford Hospital.
The ward she was in was closed due to an outbreak of sickness and diarrhoea, Friday till Tuesday, but still with a sign on the door of the bay concerned: Enter at your own risk!
I have to say I am hardly surprised, as when dirty soiled underclothes are kept in patients’ lockers (for five days in this particular case) surely this is not a good hygiene policy.
I also picked up this bug and was asked not to visit for 48 hours and to please make sure I washed my clothes! A bit late for that I think!
When I questioned this, I was told that nursing staff cannot dispose of such items without patients’ consent, should the patients have to be consulted, when hygiene is of paramount importance in a hospital?
Do the powers that be really believe this to be a “good hygiene policy”?
After some time my friend was moved into rehab on ground floor and on one occasion I went in and found a sign on the wall “dirty washing”, with a peg holding a carrier bag from a well known supermarket and washing on the floor under the bed. Words fail me!
The nursing care was very good.
Ann Tacchi
Madeley
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I was in hospital for two weeks and witnessed the cleaning daily around the ward. One morning i was eating my breakfast in bed when the cleaning lady picked her mop up off of the floor and wiped the curtain bars above my head with the dirty mop!!!
Not amused.
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My dad was omitted to Ward 4 about 3 months ago and discharfed himself after Two days because it was so distgusting.
He couldnt even have a bath, the air conditioning was broken and the heating was on and the temp was into the 90′s with only about 3 fans for the whole ward. As a visitor I could only stay for 20 minutes before I was soaked to the skin in sweat!
He was given someone elses medication by accident!!
Absolutley distgusting hospital which my father has had put in his doctors notes never to be taken to again.
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