Doctor calls for special unit to clean hospital beds
NEW hospitals should include a special area for cleaning furniture in the battle against infections, a doctor said yesterday.
Dr Maeve McPhillips, a radiologist at the Sick Kids Hospital in Edinburgh, said when she had worked in a Swiss hospital beds were taken out of the ward and cleaned between each patient.
Dr McPhillips, speaking as doctors met in Liverpool for their annual conference, said she had recently been impressed by standards of cleaning at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where she had surgery. She said cleaners washed the floors thoroughly and nurses cleaned the beds.
But she added: "Is that what nurses ought to be doing?" In Switzerland beds were cleaned by other staff in a special unit.
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