Why doesn't someone invent something to take into hospital to check the cleanness of your bed and surroundings

Question

It would be useful to have a gadget that checks the levels of bacteria in and around your bed, so you could take the appropriate action. Its seems all uk hospitals are very unclean and you take your life in your own hands going into one.

Also, for visitors, something to stop them walking through the door untill they use the achol gel. I recently was visting someone and the amount of people that just walked past the gel was amazing.

Answer 1

this may not solve the issue since infection is spread usually as an airbourne phenomena and hospital laundries operate at very high temperatures which means bedding is generally ok.
Hand washing is a good idea and should be mandatory.
Also lots of research shows over use of bleaches and detergents actually weakens the immune system and causes people to be more susceptible to infection. So does crowding of people as infection has a much easier course of spread through a population. This is true of many crowded living places. Limiting numbers of people using shared facilities is important.
i.e. stay away whenever possible.

Answer 2

It's not only visitors who walk past the gel, trust me!!

Not all UK hospitals are unclean. The cleanliness of hospitals is down to the cleaners, patients, nurses, doctors & visitors alike. The patients have a responsibilty to abide by the rules of what they can & can't bring in with them. The patient should also demand that anyone touching them, should wash their hands.

I'm not excusing the medical staff, but sometimes they are trying to do four things at once & some patients are really demanding.

We all need to work together to eliminate MRSA & we all have a role to play. :-)

Answer 3

When I retired from the Airline I took a job four years later with a lab Company.
I had a route where I had to pick up blood specimens, and other specimens from hospitals. In those six years I seen just one office from my twenty-six stops that when I got to the last Doctor's office I noticed that the nurses had pure "clorox" and was wiping down the examing table with the paper off. Washing down the crome "stirrups", the visitor's chair, the Doctors stool, the counters, the door knobs, and just everything you could imagine. I have been in many hospitals over my years from broken bones to you name it and I have never seen anything like that performed. Just as my Dr. told me you are better off at home than you are here. "STAPH". That is a killer, and there is a "staph" germ out there that they cannot kill. I have lost two friends from by-pass surgery due to staph-infections.
And at the same hospital. Forget that one for me. But in essence you can pick up the germ in any inviroment.
But my point as I stated before was this is the only Doctor's office that I have seen sterlized each day. And this is the same female Dr. that told me, "Robert remember one thing. All drugs are "poisen"! But at times we have to have them. Rody

Answer 4

Because no one would ever go into a hospital. Hospital inquired infections, also known as Nosocomial Infections are far more rampant than the public knows. Read up on Malpractice. 291 people a day die from Malpractice alone.
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/malpractice/st/?postId=6529
Click on this website and read my story. I know the statistics and they are staggering. Be very afraid to be admitted to a hospital today. I say this as a nurse who has been licensed for 19 yrs!

Answer 5

The only thing that would actually work would be cleaners and basic hygiene and unfortunately the government wont give the NHS the money to pay for them.
The hand gels aren't that effective & the majority of nurses and doctors don't use the gels as often as they should

Answer 6

good point but you know it cost millions already and wasting money on lets see things

Answer 7

yes! a portable kim and aggie!!!