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NEW - 200,000 Canadians a Year Leave Hospital Sicker
Hospital-acquired infections affect 200,000 Canadians every year and kill 12,000 of them. These aren't people who arrived critically ill. These are people who went in for something and picked up a superbug that antibiotics cannot touch. The cleanest-looking room in the building can still be carrying Clostridium difficile 90 days after the last infected patient left.
What does it feel like to learn that the place designed to fix you has a structural problem nobody is fixing? Cleaners get ten minutes to turn over a room. The cloths being used don't work against the resistant bugs. The doctor…
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