Eight senior doctors at Burnaby General Hospital have raised concerns about infection control at the hospital, after 473 patients were seriously infected with C. difficile. Eighty-four of those patients died. The eight doctors (including 6 department heads) wrote that " current CDAD [C. difficile] infection control management at Burnaby Hospital... is a serious hazard to the patient population. ... Such is the degree of the CDAD problem and the ineffectual response to it, that we believe it could objectively be considered medical negligence. " The doctors made 16 recommendations to resolve the problem, including the immediate institution of enhanced cleaning within hospital units. The doctors point to a lack of enhanced cleaning of high C.difficile medical units despite a recommendation from the infection control committee following the late-2011 outbreaks. Hospital Employees Union spokesperson Margi Blamey said a focus needs to be put on resources for cle
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