Armed forces 'superbug' menaces UK

Interesting.


Armed forces 'superbug' menaces UK

The UK, the United States and Canada are facing growing fears over a drug-resistant 'superbug' being brought back by wounded soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq that threatens to contaminate civilian hospitals.
The intensified concern comes amid sharply rising infection rates in the US and fresh worries in Canada that the bug could be imported into its civilian healthcare system. Military health officials who have studied the bacterium in Afghanistan believe the infection of wounded British soldiers in field hospitals there is probably inevitable.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2228205,00.html

The Brit wounded coming back, all go into the national health system.

xoxoxoBruce;418894 wrote:

The Brit wounded coming back, all go into the national health system.

So? What point are you making?

Rather than being segregated, in a military hospital, they are thrown in the same facilities as the general population. That makes it harder to keep things from spreading.

And it's pretty shocking in itself.
I deplore the fact that the military no longer have their own hospitals.

Does that have anything to do with some type of "Universal Healthcare" ? Cuz if it does - I'm out!

Yes, returning wounded go into the National Health System, or whatever it's called.

Actually it's stupid fucked up Government policy rather than being directly connected to having the NHS. Obviously if we didn't have the NHS, various governments of different flavours wouldn't have been able to penny-pinch the military hospitals closed. But the reverse isn't true, i.e. a condition of having Govt funded healthcare doesn't automatically mean soldiers should be treated in public wards.

Many voters are against this TBH. But without a referendum what can you do? We're a representative democracy, not a true democracy.