The Civic and General campuses of the Ottawa Hospital are dealing with outbreaks of anti-biotic resistant superbugs. And medical experts are blaming hospital overcrowding. Dr. Kathy Suh, the hospital's director for infectious diseases said medical staff have taken steps to isolate those with the infections to prevent further spreading. "We try to identify patients who have these early, admit them to private rooms where possible," said Suh. But here, as elsewhere, that is not so easy. "The factors that have led to this largely have to do with the volume of patients we are admitting to the hospital," said Suh. "We are quite often over capacity, but that does provide challenges in being able to isolate patients in private rooms as we would like to. Both campuses are fighting VRE, and the hospital expects about ten times more cases than normal. The Civic campus is also dealing with MRSA and C. Difficile. It's good to see that the media is begi
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