Post by tiddles on Apr 18, 2012 16:05:20 GMT 1
From the Tele
It doesn't surprise me in the least. When I was a student and then a junior doctor in GRI, the cleaners would come in just before ward rounds and scrub the place from top to bottom (much to the irritation of the patients). The nurses would change the beds, the cleaners would wash down the lockers and window sills and the floors would be washed by huge machines that took serious strength to hold and when that was done, a huge polishing machine came out so that matron and sister could see their ugly mugs in the floor. Ether soap was used too which gave that, 'hospital smell'. The cleaners ALL worked for the hospital board.
Then....from the bowels of hell came that whore of Babylon, Thatcher who decided that EVERYTHING had to go to competitive tender and so the cleaners were employed by Scrubberco who submitted the lowest tender. In order to do this they had to cut the number of cleaners and the number cleaning cycles. Result: boggin hospital!
It has gone on for years to the extent that we now have ENDEMIC infections of C.Dif; Pseudomomas A and MRSA to name but three. I am sick to death of hearing about, 'Deep cleaning'. Jesus Christ, a hospital should be inherently, deeply clean, it's not something that should be done occasionally in response to a panic.
IRH has never struck me as a particularly good hospital, in fact in many ways I have found it to be a bad one. It has a history of mismanagement and staff rivalry to the extent that on one memorable occasion, two consultant surgeons (names on request) had a boxing match between two theatres over a portable light source. Also during the 80s and 90s there were numerous scandals involving bad testing, strife between senior staff, patients having both knackers removed for no reason and the list goes on. Of course every hospital has its problems and every doctor gets it wrong sometimes but when such things become the norm, there's something rotten in the state of Denmark (probably that vile streaky cheese).
The toilets on the ground floor have been minging since the day the place opened. I don't know how often they are cleaned but it ain't enough. I am told they are quite popular with junkies and their associates.
HOSPITAL visitors have slammed the state of 'disgusting' public toilets within Inverclyde Royal.
It doesn't surprise me in the least. When I was a student and then a junior doctor in GRI, the cleaners would come in just before ward rounds and scrub the place from top to bottom (much to the irritation of the patients). The nurses would change the beds, the cleaners would wash down the lockers and window sills and the floors would be washed by huge machines that took serious strength to hold and when that was done, a huge polishing machine came out so that matron and sister could see their ugly mugs in the floor. Ether soap was used too which gave that, 'hospital smell'. The cleaners ALL worked for the hospital board.
Then....from the bowels of hell came that whore of Babylon, Thatcher who decided that EVERYTHING had to go to competitive tender and so the cleaners were employed by Scrubberco who submitted the lowest tender. In order to do this they had to cut the number of cleaners and the number cleaning cycles. Result: boggin hospital!
It has gone on for years to the extent that we now have ENDEMIC infections of C.Dif; Pseudomomas A and MRSA to name but three. I am sick to death of hearing about, 'Deep cleaning'. Jesus Christ, a hospital should be inherently, deeply clean, it's not something that should be done occasionally in response to a panic.
IRH has never struck me as a particularly good hospital, in fact in many ways I have found it to be a bad one. It has a history of mismanagement and staff rivalry to the extent that on one memorable occasion, two consultant surgeons (names on request) had a boxing match between two theatres over a portable light source. Also during the 80s and 90s there were numerous scandals involving bad testing, strife between senior staff, patients having both knackers removed for no reason and the list goes on. Of course every hospital has its problems and every doctor gets it wrong sometimes but when such things become the norm, there's something rotten in the state of Denmark (probably that vile streaky cheese).
The toilets on the ground floor have been minging since the day the place opened. I don't know how often they are cleaned but it ain't enough. I am told they are quite popular with junkies and their associates.
